Unit II: WW1
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- WW1
- Allied use of new technology
- Dreadnoughts, tanks, gas, air power, telephone, trains, motor vehicles
- Allied victory over Germany
- Failure of the Schleiffen Plan
- USA entered war
- Strength of GB home front
- Rationing, women
- League of Nations
- Difficulties/ Failures
- Germany wasn't allowed to join
- USA refused to join
- Had no army
- Failed to impose sanctions
- Successes
- Helped poor countries
- Resolved minor arguements
- Dealt with drugs and refugees
- Difficulties/ Failures
- D.O.R.A
- No-one could buy binoculars
- Couldn't buy homing pigeons
- Couldn't use fireworks or bonfires
- Couldn't ring church bells
- Why were people unhappy about the T of V
- It was harsher than expected
- People hated the War Guilt Clause
- USA were afraid it would lead to more bitterness
- GB polititians worried that their economic problems survival depended on Germany's recovery
- The alliances
- Dual alliance: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1879
- Triple Alliance: 1882
- Entente Cordiale: 1904
- Triple Entente: 1907
- The Causes of WW1
- Naval arms race: Naval laws, dreadnoughts, cause tension
- Militarism: strengthening armies
- Alliance system
- Imperialism: German ambition versus GB & France
- REMEMBER: M.A.I.N
- The use of Gas
- Germans 1st used in Ypres
- Different types used eg. Tear
- Importance of wind direction (could blow back)
- Operation of gas canisters
- Sarajevo assassinations
- Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia
- Russia mobilised to help Serbia
- Germany declared war on France
- Serbia refused to accept blame
- Aims of the League of Nations
- Stop further wars
- Improve Peoples Lives
- Disarmenment
- Enforce Treaty of Versaille
- REMEMBER S.I.D.E
- Tension between GB and Germany
- Britain had more dreadnoughts
- Britain convinced Germany was building a larger army
- Germany convinced GB was trying to stop them having navy
- GB has a fear of invasion
- Allied use of new technology
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