AP Euro Timeline 1348-1351 Black Death 1337-1453 Hundred Years War 1378-1417 Great Schism 1440 Lorenzo Valla disproves Donation of Constantine 1485 End of War of Roses 1492 Columbus sails to Americas; Grenada falls to Spain ;Moors are driven from Spain (Ferdinand and Isabella) 1509 Erasmus’s In Praise of Folly 1513 Machiavelli’s The Prince 1517 95 Theses (Tip: 1+1+7=9‚ with 5— 95 Theses) 1527 Sack of Rome‚ crucial imperial victory by HRE against France and Italian
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and wanted to win‚ this means that they all hated each other while just concentrating on having a bigger army that could overpower the others. Russia won the arms race as a single country as it developed there army the quickest but combined the triple entente won the arms race. In conclusion the all became competitive trying to be better than one another and this could have led to war. Nevertheless the assassination in Sarajevo was also a long term cause leading to ww1 as Serbia was very annoyed because
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the start of World War II in 1939‚ and the First World War or World War I thereafter. It involved all the world ’s great powers‚ which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom‚ France and Russia) and the Central Powers (originally the Triple Alliance of Germany‚ Austria-Hungary and Italy; but‚ as Austria–Hungary had taken the offensive against the agreement; Italy did not enter into the war). These alliances both reorganized (Italy fought
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at one billion marks in the first year‚ rising to two and a half million marks annually. The plan also stated that the Ruhr area was to be evacuated by Allied troops‚ and reorganize the Reichsbank‚ the central bank of Germany. Germany and the Triple Entente accepted the plan and it began in September 1924. Reparation payments were made quickly‚ but it became apparent that Germany could not continue repaying such large annual payments for much longer. The Young Plan was brought in as a substitute
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alliance went to war‚ the other countries would have to help the country that had gone to war. At this point‚ there were two major alliances. The first consisted of Germany‚ Austro-Hungary and Italy‚ named the Triple Alliance. The other‚ made up of Britain‚ France and Russia‚ was named the Triple Entente. As these alliances were formed‚ there became immediate friction between the two alliances‚ as each one tried to overpower the other. 2. Imperialism: At that time‚ Kaiser‚ as well as the rest of Germany
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After the Bolsheviks came to power‚ Trotsky became the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs and published the secret treaties previously signed by the Triple Entente that detailed plans for post-war reallocation of colonies and redrawing state borders. White Army propaganda poster depicting Trotsky as Satan‚ and portraying a xenophobic depiction of the Bolsheviks’ Asian supporters as mass murderers. The caption reads‚ "Peace and Liberty in Sovdepiya". Bolshevik propaganda portrait from 1918 depicting
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Allied powers also known as Allies refers to those countries which formed an alliance in opposition to the Central or Axis Powers in World War I. The Allied powers consisted of several countries that joined their forces beginning in 1914 and they are as follow: (1). Great Britain (2.)Russia (3.) France (4.) Belgium (5.)Serbia in 1917: and the (6.) The United States. Central Powers was the World War 1 coalition that was defeated by the Allied Powers. The countries included in the Central Powers
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war’s fantastic atmosphere of constant fear and incidents. Some very strong‚ positive characters and a hint of humor make this play successfully dramatic. In 1913‚ Europe was dominated by two power blocks. The Triple Alliance consisted of Germany‚ Austria and Italy and in the Triple Entente were Britain‚ France and Russia. The event which sparked off World War One was the war was the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne‚ Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Bosnia.
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❖ To what extent was naval rivalry the main cause of the first World War? One of the main causes of World War I was the Anglo-German naval race. Britain‚ as an island empire‚ always had the navy as one of her top priorities. A key event in Britain’s naval expansion was the 1889 “Naval Defense Act” that established the "two power standard": Britain considered necessary to have a navy that was not only the largest in the world‚ but also equal to or greater than the sum of the world’s second and
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Bismarck set out to create alliances to make Germany more powerful and in 1879 they made the Dual Alliance with Austria-Hungary‚ then in 1882 it became the Triple Alliance when Italy joined. 12 years later France approached Russia they agreed terms and the Alliance became known as the Franco-Russian Alliance‚ this alliance became the Triple Entente in 1907 when Britain turned to France to create an alliance. The European powers had now created a chain reaction ready to be set off. "If France is attacked
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