WEEK 1 - CLASS 2

On Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Today we talked about the World War 1. In 1900, almost everyone agree to colonize in order to be a great nation. Back in 1800, France and Britain had large empires that continue to grow during the 19^th century. In 1870s, Germany and Italy became united countries for the first time, both wanted to develop overseas country. The “Morocco Incident” was the incident when France was angry at Germany because Germany was interested in an overseas country. German was nervous that France was going to attack them. German began to strengthen their military, navy and other colonial businesses. “The Ottoman Empire” was the Muslim and Turkish Empire. It started to expand; they made it to Hungary when they stopped to expand in the modern days. France made an alliance with Britain to be stronger. They also ally themselves with Russia. Austria blames assisnation of Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo on the Serbian government. Austria used it as a pretext to launch an attack on Serbia. Russia promised protection to Serbia but they weren’t ready yet. Germans heard about preparations in Russia so they declared war on Russia. Britain mobilizes its fleet. German soldiers marched into Belgium. Then Austria declared war on Russia after that Britain and France declared war on Austria.

We didn't have an ldl today, it will be replaced on WEEK 2