World War 1 On Sunday‚ June 28‚ 1914‚ in Sarajevo‚ Bosnia‚ an 18-year-old Serbian named GavriloPrincip‚ shot and killed Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife Duchess Sophie whilethey were driving in an open car. Princip belonged to a sercet terror society‚ called theBlack Hand‚ that wanted to rid Bosnia of Austrian rule and unite it with Serbia. Theassassination led to the first World War. This terrible conflict latsed over 4 years‚ involvedover 30 nations‚ and claimed more than 20‚000‚000 lives
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Women spies-Mata Hari Mata Hari is one of the most recognized spies of WWI. Mata Hari was no ordinary spy. Mata was a women who used her sexual appeal and prostitute lifestyle to play the government and government officials during WWI. Mata Hari‚ was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle stage name‚ she began preforming as a promiscuous dancer when she moved to Paris. During the time of WWI Mata was a courtesan to many high ranking military officials. As a Dutch subject Mata was able to cross national
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November 9th‚ 1917 During the Russian Revolution in 1917‚ a successful party called the Bolsheviks came to power. The Bolsheviks were born out of Russia’s social democratic party led by Vladimir Lenin. The Bolshevik party obtained power by total drive of character and the support of the disappointed soldiers‚ sailors‚ peasants and factory workers who were organized into Soviets. They grabbed the support of these various social classes by making promises such as: giving land and power to the peasants
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On January 9th‚ 1917‚ Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg announced the use of unrestricted submarine warfare. Hollweg decided that the policy of a wholesale-unrestricted attack might keep America out of the war. Due to the weakness of the country at the moment‚ their best line of defense would be through these unrestricted attacks. Americas “neutral ships” had been moving across the Atlantic bringing in supplies for the allies. This brought Hollweg to the conclusion to use U- boats and use this zone of
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protestors but was fought for a good cause for women’s rights. Many groups ran by women wanted to refine laws‚ but politicians did not want to listen to the groups. Therefore women realized to obtain equality‚ they needed the right to vote. In January 1917‚ NWP members known as Silent Sentinels protested outside the White House to make a statement that achieving what you want does
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central powers consisted of Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ Ottoman empire‚ and Bulgaria. The allies consisted of great Britain‚ France‚ Russia‚ Serbia‚ Belgium‚ Romania‚ Greece‚ and Japan. Italy later joined the allies in 1915 and the United States joined in 1917. The war began when Germany invaded France through Belgium. World war 1 was the first war where so many new technologies were used including tanks‚ airplanes and machine guns. The ideals of the military leaders were still in an older mindset of sending
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1918 saw the disciplined‚ robust forces of the Central Powers (who consisted of Germany‚ Austria-Hungary‚ the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria) lose to the Allies (Great Britain‚ France‚ Belgium‚ Italy‚ Russia up to 1917‚ and USA in 1917) in a war that would become known as the First World War. Both sides were fairly evenly matched even though the Allies had dispatched almost double the amount of men than the Central Powers’ meagre 21 million. This was because‚ although the Allies had the larger force
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D3 5. How far was Nicholas II responsible for the fall of the Romanovs in 1917? Nicholas II being the last tsar of the Romanov dynasty that lasted for over 300 years‚ is accountable for the fall of the Romanovs in 1917‚ however‚ there are various other reasons too that involved in the ultimate fall of tsarism in Russia in February 1917. While Nicholas’s indecisiveness played a major role in portraying his negligence‚ the other factors that involved the fall of tsarism were‚ the declining economic
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April Theses‚ Russian Aprelskiye Tezisy‚ in Russian history‚ program developed by Lenin during theRussian Revolution of 1917‚ calling for Soviet control of state power; the theses‚ published in April 1917‚ contributed to the July Days uprising and also to the Bolshevik coup d’etat in October 1917. During the February Revolution two disparate bodies had replaced the imperial government—theProvisional Government and the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies. The Socialists who dominated
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Why did America become involved in WWI? How did President Wilson justify his decision to enter the war in 1917? Was the war in the national interest? At the start of 1917‚ the United States and its president was not interested in fighting in the war. President Woodrow Wilson wanted to remain neutral. Even though 2 years earlier in 1915‚ a Germen u-boat destroyed the R.M.S Lusitania‚ in which 128 Americans were lost. The United States was interested in selling weapons and help with funding the allies
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