World War I Storybook
By Antonio Bisutti
Long-Term Causes of The War
The event that triggered the war was the assassination of the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand.
The Schlieffen Plan was the German General Staff's early 20th century overall strategic plan for victory in a possible future war where it might find itself fighting on two fronts: France to the west and Russia to the east. The result of the plan was that it did not work.
Trench Warfare was a form of warfare in which both combatants occupied fighting lines of deep trenches, where they had many hardships.
The United States entered the war when Germany refused to stop using their unrestricted submarine warfare.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was an inevitable result of peasant dissatisfaction, poor leadership, an unpopular monarchy, and political movements. The effect of the revolution on the war was that Russia started to lose on the Eastern Front.
In November 1918, Germany surrendered to the Allied Powers on the Western Front, also known as the Armistice.
The Treaty of Versailles was signed in June 1919, between Germany and the Allied Powers. Germany was punished by having to take sole responsibility for causing the war, pay for reparations at about billion, they lost all their colonies, no navy, and no airforce.