World War One the First Essay

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Serbia refused, knowing that Russia would support them if attacked by Austro-Hungary. Meanwhile, Germany supported Austro-Hungary, and within two weeks of the assassination, armies across Europe were mobilizing for war.

Germany attacked France preemptively because it believed that France support Russia resulting in a dreaded war on two fronts. Because Germany's Schlieffen Plan had always envisioned dealing with France first in any war with Russia, Germany declared war on France immediately even though France was still uninvolved in the issues directly. Germany attacked France in August 1914 through neutral Belgium to avoid the heavily fortified French-German border. This brought England and Prussia into the war by virtue of international agreements in place since 1939.

The war quickly involved most of Europe but bogged down in trench warfare in 1915 because combat tactics had not yet evolved to match the destructive power of mechanized warfare that slaughtered men exposed on the battlefields.
Ultimately, it was the entrance of the U.S. In late 1917 and the continual international embargo of goods headed to Germany in international waters that starved Germany and produced a surrender on November 11, 1918. The postwar settlements created newly independent nations in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and the Ukraine. In the Middle East, it divided up the former Ottoman Empire and gave control of Syria and Lebanon to France….....

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