WWI? What happened?

Question

In history class we have talked about many wars in the past. However never have any of my teachers ever gone into detail about WWI, I know it has a lot to do with Germany, which led Germans to believe in Hitler causing WWII. What my question is, is how was the war started, what happened during it, who was involved, and how did WWI end?

Answer 1

Perhaps this can help you:

http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW1/WW1_timeline.htm

Answer 2

Well... a three part question.
Ok
1. With WWI you have to distinguish between the excuse, and the reason. The excuse was the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Bosnian Serb: this happened in Sarajevo. With that, Austria sent an ultimatum to the serbs, which they rejected. Austria and Germany, who was allied with them, declared war on the sebs, and then Russia, who was an ally of the serbs, went into it as well. The Russians were allied with the French, so they got into it, and then the brits did, because Germany invaded Belgium, which was a neutral country, but with close ties with England. Very soon, everyone was in it. That's the excuse.
As for reasons, there are several, which involve nationalism, and also the whole business with the alliances. Austria's empire was disintegrating, and that meant that some land in Europe would be up for grabs, in an era where empires still wanted to expand as much as possible. Couple that with the alliances, and you have a pretty big mess.
As for what happened during it; basically the allies (France, England, Italy, Russia) duked it out against Germany and Austria for 4 years. it was mostly a trench war, which means that they each dug themselves some trenches, shot at each other, ran through fields and gassed each other with very nasty stuff. The US got into it late, in 1917, after the Germans sunk a ship called the Lusitania, and the Russians got out of it around the same time, when the bolsheviks and Lennin took over and ousted the zar.
The whole thing ended in 1918, with the defeat of Germany et al. The treaty of Versaille, which basically humilliated Germany, forced them to pay reparations in the millions, gave alsace and lorain to France, and prohibited germany from having an army, among other things.

Answer 3

World War One was basically a culmination of European history up to the beginning of the twentieth century. Officially (according to the agreement in the Treaty of Versailles), it was blamed solely on the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires. The spark that lit the fire was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austrian throne, by Gavrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia (this was a group dedicated to the unification of the South Slavs and independence from Austria). Austria proceeded to blame Serbia for the assassination, and everyone had to choose sides for the coming conflict based on their treaties.

The Allied powers were: British Empire, France, Italy, Russia, United States, and many others

The Central powers were: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bulgaria, German Empire, and Ottoman Empire

More generally, many say the war can be blamed on imperialism, nationalism, and the desire of many Europeans to form countries united on the basis of language.

The War itself took place, mostly, in trenches. Many new techniques and weapons were used, including trenches, airplanes, and noxious gas as a weapon. For more detail visit my source listed below.

WWI ended because the US added a lot of power to the Allies when it joined them, and also because the Central powers were faced with fighting a war on two fronts. The final treaty reached was the Treaty of Versailles, in which Germany was required to accept responsibility for the war, as well as make reparations to the Allied powers for the costs of war (which it never really paid in full).

What caused Hitler to gain power just twenty years later was the period of economic and social recession caused by the losing of the war and the weakening of the nation by these very conditions.

Answer 4

The correct answers are above. I'm just glad nobody said Bush thought the Germans had WMDs.

Answer 5

Someone killed an Archduke of Austria and the whole war start after that

Answer 6

The Prussian/German Grand Duke was assassinated. Thats all I remember.

Answer 7

why dont you go to the library and get a book, because u cant writh on here what happened, or search world war 1 on the net

Answer 8

You need to do some serious research, on a serious site because some of the answers here are so badly wrong that they are almost funny.

Talk about the blind leading the blind...........

Answer 9

the wwl began in 1915 i think the german prince went into austrian territory and they assianated him and the germns declared war against austria and thats how it started

Answer 10

actually i dont really know. Most teachers klinda skip over that war to go into WW11...

Answer 11

Hey!

Its a really looooooong story.... It ended with the US bombing
Hiroshima and Nagaskai.. (I thnk). Why don't you ask your
history teacher?!