World+War+1

= **World War One** = Michelle Claas

Road to World War 1

 * Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand (immediate cause of WWI)
 * Growth of large mass armies
 * Conscription
 * The Black Hand-Serbian terrorist organization
 * "Blank check"
 * Ultimatum to Serbia
 * Mobilization of armies (especially Russian)
 * General Alfred von Schlieffen
 * The Schlieffen Plan

The War

 * Causes: imperialism, nationalism, militarism, and alliances
 * First Battle of the Marne
 * Trench warfare
 * Paul von Hindenburg
 * Verdun
 * Somme
 * Gallipoli
 * Unrestricted submarine warfare
 * //Lusitania// (boat)
 * Home front
 * Propaganda (posters)

War and Revolution

 * March Revolution
 * Lenin
 * "Peace and Bread"
 * Bolshevik Revolution
 * Leon Trotsky
 * Civil War
 * Second Battle of the Marne

Peace

 * Wilson's "Fourteen Points"
 * League of Nations
 * Treaty of Versailles


 * Sorry for all the concrete details, but World War One just has so much stuff!**