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Defeat of Central Powers
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- The Defeat of Central Powers
- Failure of the Schlieffen Plan
- 1879
- Von Moltke
- Schlieffen said not to change it
- France = 6 weeks
- Russia = 3 MONTHS to mobilise
- 1916 Russia > Germany
- Unexpected resistance from BELGIAN partisans
- Weaknesses of Germany's Allies
- Austrian internal nationalism
- Declaration of independence of three of the eleven states - including HUNGARY
- Italy remained neutral and changed sides in 1917
- The Decline of the Ottoman Empire
- First Balkan War 1912
- Gallipoli 1916
- Arab Rebellion (Laurence of Arabia + Palestine)
- Battle of Megiddo, Syria (October 1918 Armistice)
- Austrian internal nationalism
- The Role of Technology
- Machine guns
- Tanks (1916)
- Magazine loaded rifles
- Airplanes (Reconnaissance and bombing 1917 onwards)
- Count von Richtoffen
- German miscalculations/ mistakes
- Unrestricted submarine warfare
- Lusitania (125 Americans)
- 5,000 tonnes of shipping
- American Declaration of War
- As a result of the naval blockade
- American Declaration of War
- WAR OF ATTRITION
- Somme (July 1916)
- Verdun (1916)
- U9 SINKAGE OF 3 BRITISH CRUISERS WITHIN MINUTES
- Lusitania (125 Americans)
- Battle of Jutland (1916)
- British Grand Fleet
- 250 ships
- Dreadnought-class (1906)
- 3 capital ships > 2 German capital ships
- Admiral Scheer
- Zimmerman Telegram (March 1917)
- Ludendorff Offensive 1918
- Unrestricted submarine warfare
- British Naval Supremecy
- Dresden Sinkage (March 1915)
- Internal German Problems
- Kiel mutiny (20th October 1918)
- German Republic proclaimed by SPD and Kaiser exiled to Holland
- Failure of the Schlieffen Plan
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