The First World War: briefly about the main

In 1914, the First World War broke out in the world and, above all, on the European continent. Briefly and at the same time it is very difficult to describe it in full because of the fact that neither Europe, nor the rest of the planet knew such a conflict in the history of its existence. This war brought to the world original innovations of a completely different nature: the first tanks, the use of chemical gases, the trench warfare tactics, the slaughter for large-scale redistribution of territories around the world, and finally the unprecedented number of parties that took part in it.

The First World War: briefly about the prerequisites

At the beginning of the century in Europe there were very serious contradictions between the most influential states of the time. The backbone of the Entente countries consisted of states that had survived the industrial revolution early enough and by that time occupied a very advantageous position in the world economic, naval and colonial system. Speech, first of all, about France and England. In contrast to their maximum development reached Germany, barely completed the industrial revolution, but never had time to the table of the division of colonial possessions. There was a discrepancy between the potential and the real role of Germany, in which, decades ago, on the eve of the war, aggressive pan-Germanic sentiments were growing. Its natural allies were opponents of England and France, and, secondly, Russia. For example, Austria-Hungary and Turkey had their own interest in the Balkans, where during this period it was active Asserted Russia. The First World War, in short, was an inevitable consequence of growing contradictions. Thus, the conflict was inevitable sooner or later.

The First World War: briefly on the occasion

The formal reason for the opening of the fire was the assassination of the Austrian archduke by the Serbian separatists in Sarajevo in June 1914. The dualistic monarchy put forward a very tough ultimatum to Serbia, with which the government of the Balkan country almost completely agreed, except for the point on the participation of Austrian delegates in the internal Serbian investigation and the search for perpetrators - this already affected the sovereignty of the Serb side. In fact, the Habsburg Ball needs only an occasion to unleash a war, and they announced it on July 28, giving rise to bloody events.

The First World War: the course (briefly) of military operations

The fighting lasted more than four years and ended only in November 1918. At the first stage of the war the states of the Triple Union: the Germans already in August were almost in Paris, but the entry into the conflict of Japan and a number of other states led to the prolongation of the clash. Gradually the war took an exhausting trench character, where neither side of the Western Front (the French - the Germans) could gain an advantage. The latter had to fight at all on two fronts, dispersing their forces in the east in the fight against the armies of the Romanovs. The forces of the Habsburg Empire quickly demonstrated their archaic in both technical and administrative and moral terms. In March 1918, the US troops came to the Western Front to help the French, after which the German forces are gradually beginning to retreat from the territory of their neighbor. In early October, the situation for the Hohenzollerns (German rulers) became so complicated that Wilhelm II was forced to admit that he was defeated on November 11, when he walked in 1918.

First World War: results (briefly)

This conflict became at that time the most massive in the history of mankind. It involved 38 states and more than 74 million people, of which about 10 million were killed and even more disabled. But the main result of the war was the system of the Versailles accords, which put the defeated countries in a humiliating position, primarily Germany, and led to the next world war. As a result of these same agreements, the last empires were destroyed, and in Europe the triumph of national states was finally confirmed. Another major result of the world massacre were the popular revolutions in Germany and especially in Russia.