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Wilhelm let his nation's treaty with Russia apse. The Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente was formed. Serbia had nationalism that Russia supported but Austria- Hungary didn't. Austria took over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Assassination of Austria- Hungarian throne. Austria declared was on Serbia. Russia immediately took action.

Russia moved army to Russian- Astrian boarder and also German border. Germany declared war on Russia and France. Great Britian declared war on Germany. Germany developed the Schieffen Plan. It didn't work. Trench warfare began. Russia invaded Austria and Germany. Germany pushed Russia back. Austria had trouble but was able to push Russia back also. Poison gas, machine guns, tanks, and submarines were invented.

The Allies tried to defeat Ottoman to get a line to Russia but it didn't work. Governments told factories what to produce and how much. United States helped tilt the balance to the Allies side. The war was left a devastated economic impact. New technologies. Landscape of death and destruction.

President Wilson had drawn up a series of peace proposals. Britain and France isn't really agree with Wilson's version of peace. the differences in French, British, and U.S. aims led to heated arguments among the nations' leaders. Finally a compromise was reached. Created feelings of bitterness and betrayal among the victors and the defeated. New countries were made. Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia were made out of the Austria- Hungarian Empire. Palestine, Iraq, and Transjordan. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Romania and Poland.