Alliances

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  • Created on: 16-05-18 11:37
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  • Alliances
    • Revolutionary
      • Coalitions where not formal alliances à separate peace agreementsAllied commanders did not join forces together = no-coordinated attacks = French success
    • Napoleonic
      • 2nd Coalition fell apart due to quarrels Defeats of individual states à pull outs from coalitions = FR had less enemies 
      • Allies had different priorities + jealous Formal alliances à FR defeat
    • American Civil War
      • South lacked materials + numbers
      • Sustained war 1861-1865 without allies – con help could have been victorious 
    • Crimean War
      • Alliances were not overlly beneficial 
      • more russias inability to overcome the geographical barriers and inability to take advantage of its numbers
    • Wars Of Unification
      • The isolation of Austria by bismark was ineffectual as it was not the lack of allies which caused defeat at sadowa but factors such as strategic planning weaponry and organisation 
    • WW1
      • Economic resources + manpower US brought to war 1918 CrucialEconomic resources + manpower US brought to war 1918 Crucial
      • Allies launched co-ordinated attacksà advances Co-ordination of allies coincided with collapse of German alliances + central powers member seeking peace terms. 
    • WW2
      • Nazi- soviet pact prevented war on two fronts
      • The soviets supplied the nazis with war materials and oil. 

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