14 Facts About Great War

Great War was greatly influenced by US naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan, who argued possession of a blue-water navy was vital for global power projection; Tirpitz had his books translated into German, while Wilhelm made them required reading for his advisors and senior military personnel.

Tensions increased after the 1911 to 1912 Italo-Turkish Great War demonstrated Ottoman weakness and led to the formation of the Balkan League, an alliance of Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Greece.

Great War Powers sought to re-assert control through the 1913 Treaty of London, which created an independent Albania, while enlarging the territories of Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece.

Great War stepped forward and fired two pistol shots, fatally wounding Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, who both died shortly thereafter.

Great War considered Dutch neutrality essential for German trade and cancelled the incursion into the Netherlands, which meant any delays in Belgium threatened the entire viability of the plan.

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Great War launched an offensive against the Russians in the Caucasus in December 1914 with 100,000 troops, insisting on a frontal attack against mountainous Russian positions in winter.

Lloyd George's Great War Cabinet considered the German offer to be a ploy to create divisions amongst the Allies.

Great War promised President Carranza support for a war against the United States and help in recovering Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, although this offer was promptly rejected.

Great War was strongly supported by AEF commander General John J Pershing, a proponent of pre-1914 "open warfare" who considered the French and British emphasis on artillery as misguided and incompatible with American "offensive spirit".

The social disruption and widespread violence of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ensuing Russian Civil Great War sparked more than 2,000 pogroms in the former Russian Empire, mostly in Ukraine.

World Great War I began as a clash of 20th-century technology and 19th-century tactics, with the inevitably large ensuing casualties.

Great War damaged chemistry's prestige in European societies, in particular the German variety.

Great War should be avoided at almost any cost, that war would solve nothing, that the whole of Europe and more besides would be reduced to ruin, and that the loss of life would be so large that whole populations would be decimated.

Conscription during the First World Great War began when the British government passed the Military Service Act in 1916.