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Class Essay World War 1 was filled with change. It brought new alliances and strategies. It changed the way nations related to each other, and especially changed the dynamic alliances of the world. This is all wrapped up in the fact that World war 1 changed foreign relationships and policies. The "Great War" was initiated by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the hier to the Austria-Hungarian throne, by a Serbian patriot in Sarajevo. This caused a rift in peace in Europe. Germany backed the outraged Vienna government and their ultimatum to Serbia, which was refused by the Serbians. The year of 1883 was when the Triple Alliance was formed, consisting of Germany, Austria, and Italy, in an agreement to support each other if attacked by France or Russia. Just thirteen years later, the Dual Alliance between France and Russia was formed, which became the Triple Entente later when England joined them in 1904. The opposing sides of the war were formed. German motives for going into the war were varied. Some political leaders felt that with the major countries obsessed with other foreign relations, anarchy and chaos existed within Europe. Germany could take the opportunity of war in chance to control europe, and become the major authority. The United States were more easily influenced by propaganda about foreign atrocites than by actual fact. Germany invading Belgium, set themselves up for attack. The British government took advantage of this by exaggerating what was going on through reports to America. Foreign relationships and policies were severely hindered during the war. Countries were pushed to the edge and forced to do things that they did not want ot do. People were directly affected. As seen in the art of the ages. Artist started to change there ways and react to the war, the former bohemians were now becoming rebels against the war. Also the citizens of the country were on edge, and industrial disputes provoked armed conflicts in countries like Russia and Italy. Also in countries like the US they tried to get soldiers by instillin nationalistic pride. They needed the soildiers to fight the enemies across the atlantic. The German army had a lack of mobility, and unlike other countries they could not mobolize and stand still, all of the great powers during the war had a plan to mobolize there armies during the war, becuase all countries worked for victory for there own sake. Many new advances were made through warfare, including trench warfare,and more bombs. Countries also used their navys to conquer there enemies. Germany especially, used their navy to their advantage when they warned nuetral countries of the perils that would happen to their merchant ships if they stayed nuetral. This was not the only tactic they used to get countries to go to war with them, they also stopped trade with America. Along with this new kind of warfare there was an enormous death toll accompanied by an extremely large amount of injuries. This amount of death and corruption brought down good foreign relations. Without the pressure of merchant ships being destroyed, or the stop of trade peaceful President McKinley may not have entered war. They also had new technologys such as telegram interception. This is one of the reasons we had a good navy. Our CIA gained lots of knowledge and sent it out quickly to the units of our armed forces. As the the CIA got better at intercepting and decoding messages, the war became more secret. The Zimmerman Telegram is an example of a German telegram that was intercepted by the CIA. It looked like it was intended to go to the Mexican government. It told America exactly when Germany was going to start submarine warfare. Also they were interested in getting Japan on their side. . New technology changed forgien relations beause they were able to more effetively get information to help themselves win the war Going into the war Wilson gave our nation set points of which to follow. As a nation we were to stick together and support each other no matter which country we were fighting in. This document also focused on our relationships with other countries. Our first initiative was to remain neutral, however; as the war progressed we were forced to make a decision of which side to choose. With foreign policy we had set boundaries for other countries and how to deal with them. The war changed foreign policy forcing us to change our nuetrual stature. It also changed foreign relations in the fact that countries were uniting together with other ally countries to fight. The conclusion to the Great War began with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which occurred five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The astringent policies of the Treaty held Germany accountable for wreckage caused during the war. To atone for their damage, Germany had many restrictions and clauses placed on them; some of them included giving up land, military restriction and the Armistice, which required Germany to hand over all of their submarines. The end of the war brought forward great idealism, which led to the formation of the League of Nations. Although this union lasted for a year, their ideals of peace and anti-war eventually led to the foundations of the United Nations. The barrage of events before, during and after the Great War vacillated the relationship between World Powers from here on out. Before the war, the US was in a state of isolationism which formed the United States' inexperince in foreign relationships, thus allowing the US to be sucked up into the European wars. During the war, the policies of the allied powers and the central powers were exposed to the whole world. These policies varied greatly and eventually led to the Treaty of Versailles. Also, World War I brought many changes to that of America and the whole world. The way countries related to each other in terms of warfare and relations, everything was different.