Who fought whom in the First World War? How was the war fought? How did it transform life in Europe in?

Question

general, and Russia in particular? What were the ideas and policies of Lenin’s new Bolshevik (Communist) government in Russia? Help I got an exam today

Answer 1

I would argue that the First World War was the single greatest pivotal event in the past 100 years. Western Culture was possessed by a sense of learning, adventure, and progress.
Those that won the war and those those that lost found themselves bankrupt economically, and philosophically.

The war was fought by the Central Powers on one side (Germany, Austro-Hungary, Ottoman Turkey and Bulgaria) against the Allies (UK, France, Russia, later Italy, Japan, and the United States).

Great Armies were raised by all the warring nations and were supported by industrialized states. The war saw the rise of air-power and the use of submarines.

On the ground, armies found that while they had great logistic and industrial support behind the lines, new weapons had made movement past the front lines nearly impossible. Previous to the war, riflemen, supported by artillery, were the central offensive weapon of war. But when opposing infantry dug extensive trenches and supported those trenches with machine guns, those on the defense could and did cause horrible casualties to their enemies attempting assault.

Where densities of men were high, such as on the western front, offensive movement was all but silenced by a hail of bullets from machine guns. To break the log-jam, both sides employed new technologies and tactics--Germany began and the Allies followed suit with the use of poison gas, all sides attempted to employ long artillery bombardments. While these new tactics did greatly increase suffering, it was not until the introduction of tanks that movement was restored to the Western Front.

In the East, great distances meant that densities of manpower allowed for more freedom of movement. Aggressive German offensives in the east pushed Russia to the breaking point and eventually Russia sued for peace.

All of the warring powers were exhausted by 1917-1918 just as Americans were bringing fresh troops to France. Germany's last great offensives were broken and their armies in retreat by late 1917 brought about by Allied tanks and fresh American soldiers.

Answer 2

Axis Powers (Austria-Hungary, Germany and Ottoman Empire (Turkey)) vs. Allies (Great Britain, France, Italy Russia and later, the USA)

The problem with Russia was that it was going through the Communist revolution at just about the same time as the Great War. In fact, it was probably the huge economic toll and also the death toll in the war that became the catalyst for the 1917 Revolution. Lenin promised to get Russia out of the War, and he did, by signing a peace treaty that gave Germany thousands of square miles of Russian land in the west. Once the allies won, however, Russia got all of this land back.

Answer 3

The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand triggered World War 1. But the war had its origins in developments of the 1800's. The main causes of World War 1 were:

Here are some key dates:


28 July 1914: Austria declared war on Serbia.

1 August 1914: Germany declared war on Russsia.

3 August 1914: Germany declared war on France. WWI had begun.

4 August 1914: Britain declares was on Germany.

11 November 1918: It ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month