['he Arrns Etace
Look at the overhead of the chart and answer tho following
guestions in your notebook
1.
FJhich country had the most men serviag in its
a)
b)
natry?
2o
Iu 1914, Getrmaly had a larger populatS.on Lhan Great Brit,ainu
yet it seems to have a smaller na\ry" Can you suggest a
treasos f,or Lbis? (Eine: Look at, tbe map of, Europe)
3.
T{by was
Austria-Eungary's na1ry so snal-l?
was tha tot,al number of, naval personnel serving in tbe
" Wbat,
Trj.ple Enteate?
4
total number of naval Bersonnel available to
the Centrai Fowers?
5
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Hhat, sras t,he
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Hba! ssas the tot,a1 number of, soldiers serving
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Fhat sras Lhe totaL nu:nber of soliders serving j.n the
CeatraL Powerst armies.
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Entente?
in tbe
TripJ.e
For eaeb classification in tb,e chart, add the totals for
botb the triple entent,e and the central powers and graph
the results.
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army?
Expla j.n how
the alliance system was intended t,o
a war. (5-10 sentences)
eepreventrt
" Exp}ain hoEr the alriance system became one of the
of world war one. (5-10 sentences)
causas
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actually started, r:cst of the large
gr:ns and a-t'nltion. . Tiris ls
cotstries had alreadY begun to collect
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trstock-pi1ing"
Eacett. Amies and navies gere
lreaPons or ar
called
belng lncreased and equlPPed sith the most modeln veaPons Eoney End
technology could Provlde"
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,. &; 1914, the Britlsh Royal Navy
1899u
tsut tor- L7 yearsu Geraanyrs nary had been grcsbg._,Tn Brltaln
1914,
Brltati ft"a"Zg neJor battleshlps" Ge':=any 7. Inbad
closed a
ne,rries
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the
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For roany years before the rsaru tbe- f.Jo eor:ntries uere engaged
in a raie to keep peace rElth eech other in tb'e building of 5
battleshlps. Geraany began to bul1d up the LTerial I"w But
1897. ThL cost in taxes to the German people' rras high. na'lily
the eeperor, Kaiser welhe].]l II, told the:a th;': a stronger
'cas neeied to defo-nC the country'
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King Edward vjr and Ad-urlral sir John Fisher soon saw the
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zr-aaa- to.-British-sea Poser. As Sea Lord, Fisher scrapped
over 150 o1d ships and, ln 1906, produced E{S Dreadnoughi'
This ner+ battleship nr:de every other battles'-'ip in the vorldof
out of date. she carried ten l2-inch gr:as a:i had a speed
2l knots.
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. Building battleships uas costing both courtr:es great s'\qs
could
th.t" rsere talks betseen then to see lf they
Eoney
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cooe to solle agreonent as to how nany ships t:iey built each
year. But nothing !{as agreed and, in 1912, E=itain said she
rrould,- build tvo najor ships for every one br:ilt by Geru'any"
glhen the war began, Britain still had a bigge: navy than
Ger=anyts and tgo neg super-drednoughts vith eight 15-inch
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