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1815
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People were reminded that almost all European wars had in fact ended in a couple of weeks
1914
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Many political leaders thought that war involved so many political involvement and economic risk that it was something that was avoided
1914
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Austrians felt going to war was exciting
1914
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Jubilant citizens who showered the soldiers with flowers as the left believed that the warriors would be home by Christmas
September 6, 1914 - September 10, 1914
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The German advance was halted a short distance from Paris at the first battle of Marne. To stop them the French military leaders loaded two thousand Parasian taxicabs with fresh troops and set the to front line.
1915
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Two lines of trenches soon reached from the English Channel to the frontiers of Switzerland
1915
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The western front had become bogged down in trench welfare that kept both sides in virtually the same positions for years
1915
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A German-Austrian army defeated the Russian army in Galicia and pushed Russians far back into their own territory. Russian casualties stood at 2.5 million killed, captured, or wounded. The Russians had almost been knocked out of the war.
May 1915
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The Italians betrayed their German and Austrian allies in the Triple Alliance by attacking Austria
August 30, 1915 - September 15,1915
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The Russian army moved into eastern Germany but was decisively defeated at the battle of Tannenberg and the battle of Masurian Lakes
September 1915
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Buoyed by their success, Germany, and Austria-Hungary joined by Bulgaria attacked and eliminated Serbia from the war
1914 - 1916
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The trenches dug had become elaborate systems of defense
1914 - 1916
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Troops lived in holes in the ground separated from each other by a strip of territory known as no-mans-land
1914 - 1918
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The Industrial Revolution was largely responsible for bringing about this change in how war was fought
1916 - 1917
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Millions of young men died fighting for the elusive breakthrough
1916
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The German goal was to bleed the French army white in the ten months of fighting at Verdun 700,000 French and German young men lost their lives over a few miles of land
1915
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Airplanes had appeared on the battlefield for the first time in history
1915
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Germans used their giant airships and the Zeppelins to bomb London and eastern England this caused little damage but frightened many people
1915
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Machine guns were mounted on the noses of the planes which made the skies more dangerous
1902
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Japan a British ally seized a number of German-held islands in the Pacific
April 1915
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The allies tried to open a Balkan front by landing forces at Gallipoli southwest of Constantinople
1917
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A British officer known as Lawrence of Arabia urged Arab princes to revolt against their Ottoman overloads
1917
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The war that had started in Europe had truly become a world conflict
1918
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British forces from Egypt destroyed the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East
1915
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The German government suspended unrestricted submarine warfare
May 7, 1915
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The British ship Lusitania was sunk by German forces there were about 1,100 civilian casualties including over 100 Americans
May 31,1916
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The German and the British naval forces engaged in direct battle at the battle of Jutland
January 1917
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The Germans were eager to break the deadlock in the war. German naval officers convinced Emperor William II that resuming the use of unrestricted submarine warfare could starve the British submission within six months
April 1917
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The British were not forced to surrender and the return to unrestricted warfare brought the United States into the war
1918
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American troops did not arrive in Europe in large numbers. They gave the Allied Powers a psychological boost as well as major new source of money and war goods
1916
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Masses of men had to be organized and supplies had to be manufactured and purchased for years of combat
1916
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World War I became a total war involving a complete mobilization of resources and people
1916
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Throughout Europe wartime governments also expanded their power over their economies. Free market capitalism systems were temporarily put aside
1916
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United States president Woodrow Wilson said men and women "who remain to till the soil and man the factories are no less a part of the army than the men beneath the battle flags"
1916
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There were signs that civilian morale was beginning to crack under the pressure of total work
1916
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The British Parliament passed the Defense of the Realm At (DORA) it allowed the government to arrest and protest traitors
1918
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Most women gained the right to vote for example in Germany, Austria, Great Britain, and the United States
1918
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38% of the workers in the Krupp Armaments works in Germany in 1918 were women
1919
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There would be 650,000 unemployed women in Great Britain