ʜᴏᴡ ᴅɪᴅ Bʀɪᴛɪsʜ ʀᴇᴅᴜᴄᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴏғ Kʜᴀʟɪғᴀ ᴏғ Tᴜʀᴋᴇʏ ᴀғᴛᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ ғɪʀsᴛ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ ᴡᴀʀ?
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Imperialistic conquest among various European powers led to frequent clashes.
b. Rise of bitterness and rivalry among European nations.
c. Formation of alliances- Tripple alliance with Germany, Austria -Hungary and Italy and the Triple entente formed by England, France and Russia.
d. Growing militarisation and rising competition for markets among European powers.
e. Germanys' conflict with Serbia.
f. The annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria Hungary
g. Immediate cause was the assassination of Austrian leader.
h. The war was the first modern warfare that involved the use of chemical weapons, modern mechanised weapons, tanks etc.
Impact of war:
a. The war certainly had a devastating effect, it brought about large scale destruction of life and property.
b. It led to snapping of economic ties between major European Countries as they were engaged in war against each other.
c, War brought about great economic difficulties for the European countries who had to face huge economic crises. Britain for example after the war found difficult to regain its position of dominance and had to raise loans from US to rebuild its economy.
d. During the course of the war, the British factories catered to the needs of the war, the army. After the war, however their was a decline in production, leading to unemployment in Britain.
e. The war changed the entire political scenario of Europe. The war brought about the dissolution of Ottoman Empire in Turkey, dissolution of monarchial regimes in Germany, Austria- Hungary.
f. The war resulted in a series of peace treaties by the victors which were imposed on the languished. For Example Treaty of Versailles which held Germany responsible for the war and imposed harsh terms on it. In fact, seeds of the Second World War were sown with this treaty.
g. League of Nations was formed to maintain International Peace and Security and to prevent the outbreak of another world war.
h. Wave of communist ideas started spreading in entire Europe, more so after Russian Revolution.
i. The ideas of nationalism, honor started spreading in entire Europe, politicians ,media, publicists indulged in war propaganda laid great stress on soldiers than civilians.
j. The war had strengthened the position of US , which emerged as an international creditor, this was primarily as during the course of the war, Britain had borrowed huge sums of money from US to meet its war expenses thus after the war it was burdened with huge debts.
After the first world war british won the war but highly humiliated khalifa of turkey by this all thr mulsmis agigated and in india muslims also supported Gandhiji .
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