Anyone know loads of information on World War One?

Question

does anyone know any information on...
The bulkans
Prussian War
A.J.P Taylor
imperialism
Nationalism
Alliances
Kaiser Wilhelm
assasination of Franz Ferdinand
Schliefflen Plan
Arms Race
And what it has to do with ww1..and please can you like not make it too complicated..but i would like lots of info..thankyou soo much if you manage to answer my question...:D

Answer 1

Balkans - the area of Southeast Europe that included Serbia and much of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1914.



Prussian War - The Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) saw the French suffer a humiliating defeat. They had to give the eastern provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to the new German Empire.France wanted revenge for defeat in this war, and to get Alsace and Lorraine back from Germany.



A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990) was a prominent British historian in the Twentieth century.He wrote several major works, including 'The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848-1918' which says WW1 was inevitable and had been coming for a long time.



Imperialism - the desire and practice of building up an empire by conquering/colonizing other countries



Nationalism - the idea that people in a certain area should be free to chose their own leaders, rather than be part of someone else's empire and be ruled by foreigners.



Alliances - agreements between countries to help each other in a war



Kaiser Wilhelm - Autocratic Emperor of Germany in 1914. He liked Germany having a strong army and navy, and wanted Germany to be the leading world power.



Assassination of Franz Ferdinand - he was heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian empire. His murder by a Serb nationalist in June 1914 made Austria want to attack Serbia.



Schlieffen Plan - This was the German war plan in 1914. Russia and France were allies, so Germany would have to fight a war on 2 fronts.However,the Russian army was very big.The Schlieffen Plan was designed to beat France quickly,by attacking France through neutral Belgium, before the Russian army was ready for war, so the German army could be moved east to fight the Russians. (It failed).



Arms Race - a situation in the years before WW1 where every country was building up stronger and stronger armies and navies with more modern weapons as fast as they could.



These were all things that were causes of WW1.

Answer 2

If you type each individual one into Wikipedia, it will briefly explain in the opening paragraph what it is with detail to follow. It will also state the period it was which is why it was part of World War I. I can answer all this for you if you want but I would be here for hours trying to shorten it so its not a 10 page essay lol...



Just add me via the Yahoo Website if you want some information on each...

Answer 3

The Lord Fisher (first sea lord) brought out of retirement by public demand, clashed with Churchill over the gillipoli affair, and resigned, there was a public outcry over the needless slaughter of 100,000 men to achieve a pyrrhic victory, and Churchill had to be buried for nearly a quarter of a century and resurrected as a politician.

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the first Reich was the roman empire, the second Kaiser Wilhelm, and the third was Adolf Hitlers Germany, and they're still paying for it today!

Answer 4

Schliefflen Plan - i think was the german militarys tactic on the invasion of France via Belgium



The Balkans - an area in South Eastern europe , where the slavs live. Balkan tensions between Austria-Hungary empire led to WWI



Kaiser Wilhelm - was the german kaiser before and leading up to WWI.. he had a messed up hand



Arms Race - before WWI, the great powers of europe, England, Prussia, France, were all trying to get the greatest militaries.

Answer 5

Okay....... i know a bit about the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.

He was coming threw a town and a group of gunners were in position to shot him!

The first gunner had a shot but missed but the others thought he had hit Franz Ferdinand so they didn't bother!

It was all over for the gunners they had missed their opportunity until.........

The youngest of the gunners popped into a shop to get a sandwich and as he was walking out of the shop with the sandwich in his hand when he saw Franz Ferdinand's car coming round the corner. He dropped his sandwich and shot him dead!

Police grabbed the gunner just as he was about to take a sue aside tablet.

All the gunners were put into jail!

Hope that helped you!

Answer 6

i do no longer think there replaced into as quickly as as plenty inequality between men and ladies for the size of the conflict as there replaced into as quickly as after. I mean the ladies took up the slack at place of abode, jointly as the boys fought on the front strains of two wars. actually anybody worked mutually to get what had to be performed, carried out. i do no longer evaluate you will discover plenty inequality there. yet another facinating actuality: in the rustic the fighter pilots had to be expert by way of women folk pilots, each and all the geared up bodied men have been already suffering with so the recognized to women folk to do the coaching.

Answer 7

i don't remember much of my high school history i'm afraid (we had to study the causes of world war one) but i do remeber that the assassination of franz ferdinand was the beginning of the war. the two sides involved (the austro-hungarians and the bosnians i believe) had many different alliances that basically ended up with all out war being declared. like i saidd, i'm not 100% but check out wiki for any thing you need, it's fairly reputable when it comes to historical data.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Ferdinand_(archduke)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_World_War_I