Central Powers

As Hitler's birthplace, Austria was the first country which he absorbed into the Nazi fold after becaming Chancellor of Germany, and it was an Axis country during the war, but it was nothing more than a puppet of Germany.

Austria was annexed by Germany in 1938, and the territory and its people were considered to be German for the duration of the war.

Over 40 million casualties resulted, including approximately 20 million military and civilian deaths.

Its not how many that survived.

Prior to the Atomic Age, the "Arm's Race" (from about 1880 to December 10, 1941-When the Aircraft Carrier (Air Power) replaced the Battleship as a major weapon at sea) consisted of BATTLESHIPs. European nations; Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, and some smaller European Nations, and the United States, Japan, China, and some South American had built for them or outright purchased modern steel battleships for their navies. During that particular time frame, if a nation didn't possess battleships, they weren't worthy of being called a civilized nation, and they basically had little say on what went on in the world. Navies allowed countries/nations to PROJECT their military might; without a navy a country was pretty well restricted to it's own shores. Navies weren't powerful unless they had BATTLESHIPS. Consequently...the Arm's Race. Of all of the European Nations, Russia appeared to be the weakest competitor, but with the greatest potential to become a dangerous adversary; so Britain and France tried to keep Russia out of the Naval Arm's Race by fighting the Crimean War in 1853, when Russia attempted to build "dry-docks" for ship construction in Sevastopal in Crimea. Britain & France won the war, and Russia was slowed down in Naval construction. So now the biggest race was between Britain, France and Germany. Russia persisted, and grew again, and by the turn of the 20th Century, Germany's Leader, who was related to the Russian Tzar "talked" him into fighting Japan in 1904. This war would either eliminate the Japanese as a competitor, or eliminate Russia...or both. Leaving only Britain, France, and Germany, as major competitors in the Arm's Race. The war was fought from 1904-1905; Russia lost 2 complete battleship fleets, with only one remaining locked up in the Black Sea (locked up by treaty). Japan won the war and remained intact, but on the other side of the world...out of the European Race. The Russo-Japanese War allowed the British to approve their new Battleship HMS Dreadnaught which was launched in 1906; which launched a NEW Arm's Race based upon that Battleship design. All of the world's navies described above "raced " to build DREADNAUGHTS. Germany was now free to concentrate building up it's Navy of Dreadnaughts to take on the British GRAND FLEET. Britain, France went to war with Germany in 1914, the Dreadnaughts clashed at Jutland in 1916. Both Britain & Germany claimed victory; Britain claimed Germany would not come out and fight again, therefore they won. Germany claimed they sank more ships (which was correct) so they won. No Dreadnaughts were sunk, ONLY Battlecruisers; and Jutland became known as the battle of lost opportunities! Russia had the Communist Revolution in 1917, and had to withdraw from the war (WW1). The US entered WW1 in 1917, the war ended by Armistice in 1918.

One prominent German general during World War I was Paul von Hindenburg. He initially gained fame for his victories on the Eastern Front, particularly at the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914. Hindenburg later became Chief of the General Staff and played a crucial role in military strategy for Germany throughout the war. His partnership with Erich Ludendorff shaped many of the war's major campaigns, although ultimately, Germany faced defeat in 1918.

Russia joined world war 1 in 1914

Dismemberment of Belgium, and the incorporation of Flanders and the Netherlands into a German sphere of economic influence.

Creation of various client states in Eastern Europe (Poland, Ukraine, Courland, Livonia, Finalnd)

Supression of French and British power in Europe.

Expansion of sea power to match (British) Royal Navy

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Cruise missles, ballistic missles, jet aircraft and rocket aircraft were all used by Germany, Britain introduced radar to warfare and nuclear weapons were employed by the US.

on 12 March 1938, German troops occupied Austria, and Hitler proclaimed its Anschluss with Germany, annexing it to the Third Reich.

Germany's war reparation fees caused them to start WWII.

More specifically, the US got into WWII due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the fact that they didn't want Nazi Germany ruling Europe.

The Military of the US, UK, and France were about 2 percent or less, China at about 25 and the USSR at over 50 percent. For the Axis Military, Italy lost about 4 percent, Japan 25 percent and Germany about 60 percent.

As a percentage of the country's population including civilian deaths, the biggest loser was the USSR at 13 percent, Germany at 11 percent, China and Japan at about four percent, and France, the UK and the US at about one percent. The earth's population had decreased by more than 72 million persons.

What new naval technology was used in World War 2?

The development of the acoustic transducer that converted sound waves to electrical energy enabled rapid advances in SONAR design and technology during the last years of WW1. Although active SONAR was developed too late to be widely used during WWI, in World War II it was used a lot. The British Anti-Submarine Detection and Investigation Committee nicknamed ASDIC, became a name commonly applied to British SONAR. The use of ASDIC proved pivotal in the British effort to repel damaging attacks by German submarines.

The Germans developed a rubber coating (Anechoic) for their U-boats. It had multiple purposes, but its main purpose was to try and absorb sonar waves so the U-boats would be stealthier and less visible to Allied sonar. The coating also, to a lesser extent, made the U-boats quieter when underwater so that Allied ships listening for underwater sounds were less likely to hear the sounds of their onboard machinery etc. It also didn't return as load of an echo from Allied sonar as did a plain metal hull.

The Aircraft carriers replaced battleships as the centrepiece of naval warfare doctrine. The Americans had lots of battleships in WWII, but used them mostly as floating anti-aircraft platforms. Some say the aircraft carrier was responsible for the defeat of the Japanese.

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Kaiser Willhelm II (2nd) ruled Germany from 1888 until 9th November 1918 when he was forced to abdicate. Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg was chancellor from 1909 - 1917 when he was replaced by Georg Michaelis.
Kaiser Willhelm II ruled Germany from 1888 until 9th November 1918 when he was forced to abdicate.

In WW1 the allies went against the central powers.
The Central Powers, consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria - hence also known as the Quadruple Alliance - was one of the two main factions during World War I.

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Heir to the Austrian throne, he was shot with his wife by a Serbian nationalist

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Caporetto in Italy, where the Allies(G.B., France, and the US) drove back German and Austrian armies;

France in general, largely the scene of the horrific trench warfare that has come to typify the struggle, eventually won by the Allies, but initially, during the Frontiers of France campaign that began the war, a decided German advance checked by desperate reinforcement(some French troops arriving to the front in Parisian cabs).

Russia was also the scene of several major battles, and defeats against the German army, specifically Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes. However, the Russians were not knocked out of the war until the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

A fourth and equally decisive campaign was that of the British and Arabs versus the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East, the English victory presaging a long and difficult presence of Western power and influence in Muslim nations for the benefit of internationmal oil cartels. Those important battles were Bagdad, Jersalem, and Gaza, all three scenes of unrest to this very day.

The First Battle of the Marne, fought from September 6 to September 12, 1914, resulted in significant casualties for both sides. Approximately 2.5 million men were engaged in the battle, with total casualties estimated to be around 500,000, including killed, wounded, and missing soldiers. The battle marked a crucial turning point in World War I, halting the German advance into France.

Germany: Germany had its eyes set on establishing a "Third Reich" that would last a thousand years. At best Hitler hoped for world domination, at least for massive territorial expanse.

Japan: Japan was looking for territorial expanse.

Soviet: Soviet's first goal was to fend off the German invaders, and secondly to expand their borders as much as possible as the Germans pulled back.

Italy:Italy was hoping for great colonial power and territorial expanse through collaboration with Germany.

UK:The UK wanted nothing else than the unconditional surrender of all axis nations.

US of A:Pretty much the same as the UK, although they did not take active part in combat operations until after Pearl Harbour.

Woodrow Wilson was dissatisfied with the Treaty of Versailles. He was an idealist and wanted to build a better and more powerful world from the ruins of the first world war. He agreed with the fact that Germany should be punished for what they did, but to an extent. He was worried that if they treated Germany too harshly, then Germany would someday get revenge. Woodrow Wilson believed that all nations should agree and cooperate to achieven world peace, which is why he set the league of nations up and wrote the 14 points.

well there was a group called the black hand and they were ethnic Serb's and they wanted freedom freedom from Bosnia which archduke Ferdinand ruled they hated him so much they wanted him dead.thegroup black hand sent four men into different places in a serbian city called sarajevo where the archduke was.the first man who tried to kill him got caught the second man went right up to archduke ferdinand and his wife and shot them both.