Why Is World War One Important

The World War 1 was the first of the two “Great Wars” of the 20th century, which showed what a man could do to another. The first one, was lit by problems such as, alliances of European countries, imperialism, militarism and specially the assasination of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, Archduke Franz Ferdinard in his visit to Bosnia. The murderer was a Serbian nationalist, and afterwards Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Germany, the Austria-Hungary ally declared war on Russia, England and France, marking a beginning of chaos. We will learn particulary about the greatest and deadliest battles of World War One, where there were more than 38 million casualities, making it the 7th deadliest conflict in human history. Theses great battles were fought by brave man and
Some of the great battles include the Battle of Somme, The Battle of Verdum, The First Battle of Marne and the naval Battle of Jutland.

All of the battles which we will be talking about today took a major role on the route to winning the war. Unfortunately, in each one of them many men were lost, together with all of the money invested in the cruel war. The First Battle of Marnes was fought from September 5-12 in 1914, and in put an end to the German offensive which had been going on for a month but took 483,000 lifes. This battle opened up the war that by the time the Germans had reached the outskirts of Paris. It was a counterattack and forced the Germans to retreat northeast and build fortifications leading to the allies responding and the infamous trench warfare. The Battle of Jutland was one of the most anticipated naval battles in history. It took