Ww1 Alliance System
July 28,1914 was the day Franz Ferdinand was killed by Gavrilo Princip the leader of The black hand terrorist group located and from serbia, Princip later on after killing Franz went into prison and rotted in a jail cell because he was not the old enough for him to be death trailed . This group assassinated Ferdinand because he was the next in line to rule the Austrian Hungarian Empire, However there were other cause that got the war going and started. The number one cause of the war was the alliance system that was going on in the European countries. This alliance system meant that if one of the countries was to go to war, the other counties would have to go in as back up. There were two types of alliance systems in world war one they
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Britain blockade this sea route because they wanted to cut the germans out from any form of supplies and resources, this made germany mad so they can attack back on britain by sinking all the ships that came in with all of the supplies for Britain this went on between the two countries for a while. This side of the war is called the western front. The war was divided up into two different fronts the western and the eastern front The Germans pull a two front war which is a country fights on both sides at the same time which later comes back to get them at the end of the war because the germans end up getting blamed for the whole war and get a big fine that germany refuses to pay because they did not start the …show more content…
The fighting of the western front was very interesting because it all happened through trenches this is called trench warfare. The trenches were shaped in a zigzag so that you can't shoot straight done. the trenches are about 8 miles across these trenches are connected and so that they can move around. This war was nonmobile because they fought through. the battles of the western front were ,Ypres- october-november of 1914,.battle of verdun,february - july of 1914 this battle and battle of somme- july- november 1916 were the turning points of the civil war. The rest of the battles of the western front passchendaele-july- november of 1917 british blockade 1917 battle of the marne september
Britain blockade this sea route because they wanted to cut the germans out from any form of supplies and resources, this made germany mad so they can attack back on britain by sinking all the ships that came in with all of the supplies for Britain this went on between the two countries for a while. This side of the war is called the western front. The war was divided up into two different fronts the western and the eastern front The Germans pull a two front war which is a country fights on both sides at the same time which later comes back to get them at the end of the war because the germans end up getting blamed for the whole war and get a big fine that germany refuses to pay because they did not start the …show more content…
The fighting of the western front was very interesting because it all happened through trenches this is called trench warfare. The trenches were shaped in a zigzag so that you can't shoot straight done. the trenches are about 8 miles across these trenches are connected and so that they can move around. This war was nonmobile because they fought through. the battles of the western front were ,Ypres- october-november of 1914,.battle of verdun,february - july of 1914 this battle and battle of somme- july- november 1916 were the turning points of the civil war. The rest of the battles of the western front passchendaele-july- november of 1917 british blockade 1917 battle of the marne september