Political Ideologies and World War 1: A Comprehensive Overview

POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES

1. CAPITALISM/LIBERALISM: Created during the industrial revolution. It was the development of a liberal political belief; it is an economic system where the government plays a secondary role.

Free trade and market economy → prices up and down according to the demand of products.

2. COMMUNISM: 

• The means of production are commonly owned in classless society.

• Decisions should be made to benefit the collective rather than one or several individuals.

•  Create classless society by eliminating the power of bourgeoisie, and creating a dictatorship of the proletariat.

3. SOCIALISM: 

• The means of production are owned by society as a whole.

• Profits produced by the proletariat belong to everyone, instead of a small class of private owners.

• Believes in the parliamentary system and management of the market economy.

4. ANARCHISM

• Individual freedom

• Voluntary association

• Opposition to state

• Government → unnecessary

FEMINISM

Share a common goal: to define, establish and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal and social rights for women.

Women were usually economically and socially dependent on a man, and lacus suffrage, the right to vote.

A militant political movement eventually appeared demanding universal suffrage, equal political and voting rights for both sexes. That, made it possible for women to obtain suffrage

WW1

TRIPLE ALLIANCE: Germany + Italy + Austria-Hungary

TRIPLE ENTENTE: France + Great Britain + Russia

1914: THE START OF WW1

• 28TH of June 1914 → Archiduque Franc Ferdinand and his wife got killed by a serb student.

• 23TH of July 1914 → Austria-Hungary wanted war against Serbia

• 28TH of July → Austria-Hungary declares war to Serbia

• 29THof July→Russia moviles her troops in favour of Serbia.

• 2ND of August →France declares war on Germany

• 3RD of August → Germany declares war to France

• 4TH of August →Great Britain declares war on Germany →German troops invade Belgium

• 6THof August →Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia

• 7TH  of August → Lord Kitchener calls 100.000 men to join the British army to defend Belgium

• 13TH  of August →France and Britain declares war on Austro-Hungary

Other countries:

BATTLES:

• Battle of the Marne: 6-12 september 1914. Allies against Germany.

• Battle of Jutland: 31TH to 1st of June 1916. Most important battle in WW1. Britain against Germany.

• Battle of Verdun: February 21th to December 18th 1916. Largest war in WW1. Germany and France. 

• Battle of Somme: 1916, France and UK against Germany.

1917:

• Horrible living conditions(death, misery, hunger…)

• Russia revelled →Russian Revolution →New government →civil war →Russia left the ww1

• Germany's defense was getting worse, and the Allies defense better. November 19TH Germany gave up.

• The allied powers met in Versailles, to decide who caused the war, who had to pay reparations

• USA, Britain, and France won the war and Germany lost.