World War I was a great conflict fought in Europe and all around the world between July 28th 1914 and November 11th 1918. Many nations such as Russia, Britain, France, Germany and Autria-Hungary, USA were involved and aproximately eight million people died during that time.
28 June 1914 | Assassination of Franz Ferdinand |
28 July 1914 | Austria declared war on Serbia |
1 Aug 1914 | Germany declared war on Russia |
3 Aug 1914 | Germany declared war on France |
4 Aug 1914 | British declaration of war |
Aug 1914 | Battle of Tannenberg |
13 Aug 1914 | Japan declared war on Germany |
29 Oct 1914 | Turkey enters war |
2 Nov 1914 | Russia declared war on Turkey |
5 Nov 1914 | Britain and France declared war on Turkey |
1914 | Early stages of the war |
Feb 1915 | Winston Churchill resigns |
April 1916 | Romania enter the war |
31 May 1916 | Battle of Jutland |
21 Feb - Nov 1916 | Battle of Verdun |
6 April 1917 | USA declares war on Germany |
Oct 1918 | Allies recover France and Belgium |
Nov 1918 | Hindenberg line collapsed, German Retreat from war. |
9 Nov 1918 | Kaiser retreat |
11 Nov 1918 | Armistice signed French Territory |
Alliances during the war
Battle strategies
Structure of the country
In Russia, the population began to increase, and the population wanted to everthrow the czarist authority and wished for land liberty. Due to this increase of population, the czar Nicholas II couldn't control the situation because he wasn't prepared enough for dealing with the great problematic.
In the political side, there was a group of people like a Parliament that helped the czar. It was called Duma. While other countries were modernizing in technological and productivity issues, Russia was unable to do it due to the big differences that were on the country which couldn't unify it.
The economic situation was getting worse. Despite Germany was attacking Russia, the internal problems were bigger than that: economic crisis, unemployment, increase of prices, bankruptcy, and many protest emerged.
Economic and human costs of the war
The World War I was a very difficult phase for everyone. Barely was a family who hadn't lost a relative in the war; a brother, a son, a father, a nephew, an uncle. Some towns and villages lost all of their male members because of the battles.
There was a lot of competencies between countries. Everyone wanted to be the best. But all of this was leading us to the War, also there where some places that wanted to be also important and have the best things, but because of the economic problems, they couldn’t. One of these places was Russia .
When Russia got involved in war, Russia was not so good economically speaking. A lot of people were unemployed, they didn’t have money, they were starving, and they were not satisfied with their quality of life and government.
When the WWI was over, everything was destroyed. Cities and families were destroyed. People didn’t have a home anymore.
A lot of damage was made. Buildings had to be constructed again, cities too.
After the WWI Russia l ost:
- $22,293,950,000 Dollars
- 1,700,000 were killed
- 4,950,000 were wounded
- 2,500,000 Prisoners / missing.
Most important russian characters
Czar Nicholas II. |
Grigory Rasputin |
Aleksandr Kerensky |
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov known as V.I. Lenin. |
Leon Trotsky |