... problem, the Allies tried to please everyone, but ended up not totally satisfying anyone. The biggest example of this was Italy. Italy had originally been allied with Germany and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, but when war broke out Italy refused to march. Then a year later Italy signed a secret pact with the Allies, in exchange for Italy joining the war on the ... had lost so much land and resources it barely had enough capital to rebuild, let alone pay out millions of dollars in compensation to the Allies. In 1918 the German Government had only $577,089,500 dollars, and they were orde...

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... a period of 4 years. On June 28,1914, an assassin, Gvrilo Princip, gunned down the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Francis Fernidad. The assassin was believed to be to have ties with a terrorist group in Serbia, this led to the conclusion that the Serbian government was behind the murder . The idea behind the actions of Gavrilo Princip, is that his cause was ... Brest-Litovsk,which ended the war between them, which required Russia to surrender lands to Germany. On November 9,1918, Kaiser Wilhelm 11 was forced to step down from the german government. An armistice was signed (agreem...

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... had stood up to Hitler they might have prevented a number of events leading up to the Second World War, e.g., Rhineland 1936, the German and Austrian "Anschluss" in 1938 and the Czech Sudetenland crisis of 1938. Hitler himself said that if Britain had opposed him when he took over the Rhineland ... had memories of the death and destruction that it had caused. This meant everyone was reluctant to get involved in another conflict. The British government also thought that the public was sympathetic to Germany's claims to The Treaty of Versailles as they thought they had been treated too har...

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... that Germany could become a world great power only through a war. Military preparations had strengthened this kind of belief. The powers became militaristic. The increase in military control of the civilian government also increased cooperation among the military staff of the countries of the same camp. For example, all the three Entente powers held secret military talks. Germany and Austria also had ... accident in Bosnia. It was the Sarajevo incident, the immediate cause of WW1. It took place on June 28, 1914. On that day, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, a...

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