Not sure if I sent it through. This is due Monday. Please supplement the info from the doco with any other sources you deem necessary.
The First World War: Part 1: Race To Arms
Short link: http://tiny.cc/ww1causesdoco
Watch the documentary and take notes under the headings below.
It is your homework to complete these notes. Use your textbook (P46 – 56). Use the internet to find additional information if needed.
- Balkans were unstable, why?
- Serbia’s position and aims before 1914?
- AH’s position and aims before 1914?
- Assassination of FF (not too much detail necessary)
- Aftermath of assassination: AH’s response
- European attitudes towards July crisis (Germany, England, AH, Russia)
- Why did a Balkan crisis turn into a World War?
- Steps to war (Why did England declare war? Note: include brief info on ‘Scrap of paper’ = Treaty of London)
Quick timeline, steps to war (1914):
June 28 Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife are assassinated in Sarajevo.
July 28 Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.
July 31 As an ally of Serbia, Russia announces full mobilization of her armed forces.
August 1 Germany mobilizes her armed forces and declares war on Russia.
August 3 Germany declares war on France.
August 4 Germany declares war on neutral Belgium and invades in a right flanking move designed to defeat France quickly. As a result of this invasion, Britain declares war on Germany.
August 6 Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.
August 26-30 German army, led by Erich Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg achieves its greatest victory of the war on the Eastern front against Russia at the Battle of Tennenberg.
September 5-10 First Battle of the Marne halts German invasion in France.
September 15 First trenches of the Western front are dug.
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