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World War I This War was also known as the Great War because it was the first war involving most of the major countries. It started out as a conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia but it quickly spread to Germany, Great Britain, Russia, and France. These countries were required to join this war because of pre-existing treaties. This war starts with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was the next in line for the throne of Austria-Hungary, and his wife in Sarajevo on June 28th 1914. The emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time, Franz Joseph, then declared war on Serbia. Then all of Serbia and Austria-Hungary’s allies joined the war. Serbia’s allies were the France, Belgium, the British Empire, Australia, Russia, France, and Belgium. Austria-Hungary’s allies were Germany, the Ottoman, and Bulgaria. …show more content…

Then, on August 26 to August 30 1914, the Battle of the Tennenberg took place. This was a very important victory for Germany. About a month later, on September 15, the first trenches were dug. On Christmas day, the soldiers declared an unofficial truce at the Western Front. 1915 was kicked off with a German air raid on England. The on February 4th, Germany declares that any ship that is approaching England will be thought of as a target. On May 7th, a U-boat sank the Lusitania. This killed 1,198 civilians, 128 of them were Americans. To keep the U.S. from entering the war, Germany promised to not sink a ship without warning. From February 21st to December 18th of 1916, the Battle of Verdun, which was the longest battle of the war, was fought. There were about one million lives lost. April 19th, President Wilson of the United States told Germany they shouldn’t continue using submarine warfare tactics. At the Battle of Somme, July 1st to November 18th, British introduced the

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Unrestricted submarine warfare outraged many Americans because its application was an attack upon innocent civilian. Unrestricted submarine warfare also breaks an international law which states that the civilians of two warring countries are not targets. Germany not only harmed civilians, but it also broke international law. Through the sinking of the Lusitania, the public’s view of Germany’s unrestricted warfare policy intensified, and more people began to favor American involvement in the war. The sinking of the Lusitania became one of the most important events of the Great War because its reaction is, “the first step towards American involvement in the war.”

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On August 4th 1914 Britain declared war on Germany for violating Belgian neutrality. Australia as allies soon followed and sent troops who departed to Gallipoli in October 1914 along with troops from France, New Zealand and Britain. As the war continued the troops travelled to The Western front where 5,533 soldiers were seriously injured in only 24 hours, by the end of the year the list of casualties grew 40,000. In 1917, 76,836 soldiers were added to the list of casualties in battles in Bullecourt, Messines, and the four-month operation around Ypres, recognised as the battle of Passchendaele.   For Australia, World War 1 remains the most damaging conflict in terms of deaths and casualties.

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World War I, the Great War, took place from June 28, 1914 until November 11, 1918. The Great War began after several countries declared war on each other. There were four fronts: Eastern front, Western front, Atlantic front, and Middle Eastern front. All the actions that took place in each front all led to the armistice being signed on the eleventh of November. World War I started as mainly a European conflict seeing as most allies originated from countries in Europe and Europe had most of the power, but in the end it expanded to beyond Europe as outside countries were brought into the conflict for multiple reasons.

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During this time. Germany was constantly going against America's will, and breaking rules. According to document three a letter from Secretary of State to Germany it states " German authorities in violation of American rights on the high seas which culminated (resulted) in the torpedoing of the British steamship Lusitania on May 7, 1915 by which over 100 Americans citizens lost their lives" Germany and Britain May be at war however that does not give them the immunity to persecution after American rights on the high seas. However this is not the only instance Germany has wrong America during world war one while America was in the state of neutrality in document for a note from German foreign secretary or Thursday Merman two in Bassett or of Mexico states" we intend to begin submarine warfare ... if this is not successful we propose An alliance with Mexico on the following basis: that we shall give general financial support end it is understood that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico ,Texas, and Arizona".

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During World War I, the Germans use a fighting tactic called Unrestricted Submarine Warfare. German U-Boats, or submarines, were told to sink any ship that posed a threat, passenger or cargo, it did not matter. In a newspaper article it shows that the Lusitania was a passenger boat going from the coast of New York to Ireland that was sunk by a German submarine (“Lusitania”). The fact that Germany sunk a passenger ship without reason infuriated the Americans. As the political cartoon by Matthew Bollinger shows, President Woodrow Wilson is holding a piece of paper that says that American lives were lost on the sinking of this ship (Bollinger).

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World War I started in 1914 and ended in 1918. It is known as the trench warfare war and one of the worst wars in history. Many soldiers from the French and German sides died. The war was fought in France and is known as one of the worst wars. The book All Quiet on the Western Front is about Paul and his journey throughout the war.

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One hundred twenty- eight Americans died on the Lusitania and the U.S. had enough; “it would use its submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach... Great Britain... or the western coast of Europe.” (Doc. 5) By the U.S. entering WWI, they showed the Germans not to mess with them. The Zimmerman Telegram is another reason why the U.S. joined WWI.

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The Germans fought through disease and and casualties but did not retreat until February 11, 1918. After 180 days of fighting the Germans sent out a treaty on February 12. The U.S. declined it and continued to fight, they were in German territory wdn kept pushing for another twenty miles until the Germans had surrendered on February 22,

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(2)At first, when the bloody conflict of WW1 broke out, the U.S. wanted no part in it. That all changed when the German empire utilized their U-boats and initiated attacks against 5 American ships, sinking them. In 1915, before the U.S. had chosen to participate in the war, Germany sunk a ship called the Lusitania, also sinking one hundred and twenty eight American lives. (3)Tenaciously, the savage German empire did not halt, continuously capsizing U.S. watercraft. Several months before American entry into the war, the Housatonic ship was sunk, “Three days later, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and just hours after that the American liner Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat” (History.com staff).

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As Germany returns, in 1917, to the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, it came back to renew its suspension in response from force of the United States and other neutral countries. Unrestricted submarine warfare was first initiated in World War I on February 4th, 1915. Germany declared the area around the British Isles a war zone, in which all merchant ships, would be attacked by the German navy. On April 22nd, 1915, the German Embassy published a warning in newspapers to tell passengers that travel on Allied ships are “at their own risk.” One ship, called The Lusitania, was the first to submerge and depart, killing nearly 1300 passengers.

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On May 7, the Lusitania was torpedoed without warning just off the coast of Ireland. Of the 1,959 passengers, 1,198 were killed, including 128 Americans. The German government maintained that the Lusitania was carrying munitions, but the U.S. demanded reparations and an end to German attacks on unarmed passenger and merchant ships. In August 1915, Germany pledged to see to the safety of passengers before sinking unarmed vessels, but in November sank an Italian liner without warning, killing 272 people, including 27 Americans.

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In late June 1914, Gavrilo Princip a Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria which shortly after caused the beginning of the greatest and bloodiest war in history. The war was fought on different theaters by the world’s greatest empires at that time. The allies composed of the British and the French empires joined forces with mighty Russia against the Central powers composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. In 1917, three years after the war broke out, the Allies were joined by the United States which forced a quick defeat of the Central Powers. The introduction of new weapon technology and trench warfare caused an unimaginable amounts of destruction and deaths all over the content of Europe where most of the fighting took place.

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There were many causes of World War One. The Great War was a military conflict that lasted from 1914 to 1918 which involved most of the world's great powers assembled in two opposing alliances. They consisted of Germany, Austria,Hungary, Italy (till 1913), Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire fought against the Great Britain, France, Russia (until 1917), Italy ( after 1915), Serbia, Japan, Roman, Portuguese, United States (entered in 1917),Brazil and Greece. This quadrennial interval comprised indirect way and there had been several crises before in the

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The Great War was happening until November 1918 by an outbreak of war in June 1914, often called the First World War. The United States and Japan participated in the Great war and the middle East, Asia and some of africa are in combat. But it is very insignificant rates. The First World War is hard to define to outbreak and progress the war in Europe. In fact, definition of World War is affected by western civilization.

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