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The First World War

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Kinberg, Nicholas Michael Chakmakian AP European History 29 May 2015 Chapter 14 Outline WW1 Battle of Somme began 6/24/1916, Brit artillery barrage against German trenches along 25-mi.front; Brits fired 1.5m rounds over 7 days Mixing gas with explosions, gunners pulverized landscape/poisoned atmosphere German def?ers. Huddled in masks; guns went silent, 10k?s of Brits rose out of trenches, bearing 60 lbs. of equipment, made way into NoMan?s Land Were told wire-cutting explosives would destroy barbed wire between trenches, leaving them free to charge across before Germans could recover Found barbed wire intact; caught when German machine-gunners def?d.

The Great War: The World in Upheaval

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Kinberg, Nicholas Michael Chakmakian AP World History 22 August 2015 Chapter 34 Outline Contemporary Global Alignments, 1914 ? Present 1914, Euro torn by nat?l?ism/colonial disputesplunged into war Ottoman, Japan, US joined, became global; ended in 1918, Euro exhausted resources Global interdep. Ensured everyone would cope with postwar stress, culminating in Great Depression of 1929; paved way for fascist dictatorships in Italy/Germany Communists Soviet Union, born out of revolution in 1917, industrialized 5-yr. plans transformed USSR into int?l power/1stsocialist state Weakening of Euro colonies led to turmoil in Asia, nat?l?ism formed indep.

APWH Chaper 33 notes

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Chapter?33: The Great War: The World in Upheaval Chapter Outline The drift toward war Nationalist aspirations Nationalism spread by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars Self-determination suggested that eachethnic group?had a right to a sovereign state Concept was ignored or opposed by dynastic powers Considerable nationalistic tensions in Ottoman, Hapsburg, and Russian empires Slavic nationalism: stressed kinship of all Slavic peoples Ottoman empire?shrank as first Greece, then others, gained independence Serbs of Austria-Hungary sought unification with independent Serbia Russians promoted Pan-Slavism in Austria-Hungarian empire Germany backed Austria-Hungary to fight ethnic nationalism National rivalries The naval race between Germany and Britain increased tensions

World War I

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World War I ? The Great War 1. Causes 1. Long term causes a. Competition over empire i. race for colonies in Africa, India and Southeast Asia ii. Delicate balance of power after Congress of Vienna eroding b. Anglo-German rivalry over empire i. Germans jealous of Britain?s navy/empire c. Industrial competition d. Naval superiority e. Rising intensity of nationalism in Europe i. Especially in Balkans ii. Russification ? insistence on acceptance of Russian Culture a. Led to Pan-Slavic Movement i. Bring all Slavic nations into commonwealth ii. Russia would be at the head f. Alliance system i. Two sides locked into place ? Entente vs. Alliance a. Triple Entente ? France, Russia, Britain
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