82. Petit atlas en ligne : 40 cartes sur la première guerre mondiale
14 octobre 2014 Luc Fessemaz
40 maps that explain World War I
by Zack Beauchamp, Timothy B. Lee and Matthew Yglesias on August 4, 2014
One hundred years ago today, on August 4, 1914, German troops began pouring over the border into Belgium, starting the first major battle of World War I. The Great War killed 10 million people, redrew the map of Europe, and marked the rise of the United States as a global power. Here are 40 maps that explain the conflict — why it started, how the Allies won, and why the world has never been the same.
http://www.vox.com/a/world-war-i-maps
Map 5 The German and French war plans emphasized attacks
German and French war planners both believed the war was going to be an offensive one. The German plan, conceived by strategist Alfred von Schlieffen, envisioned a rapid German march primarily through Belgium into French territory. The French strategy, Plan XVII, sent French troops directly across Franco-German border, as well as through Luxemburg and Belgium. This partially explains where the main battle lines were during the war, but according to some historians it means much more than that. A very contentious line of scholarship holds that World War I was caused by these plans, because every state believed that the key to victory was a quick offensive strike and that a war, under those terms, could be won quickly and comparatively cheaply.
Titles of the 40 maps
Background
1. European alliances in 1914
2. The unification of the German Empire
3. Two wars in the Balkans fail to settle regional rivalries
4. European powers carve up Africa
5. The German and French war plans emphasized attacks
6. Ethno-linguistic map of Austria-Hungary
War breaks out
7. Franz Ferdinand is assassinated
8. The world mobilizes for war
9. WWI's first battle: the attack on Liège
10. Paris is saved in the Battle of the Marne
11. Germany routs Russia in the Battle of Tannenberg
12. The British blockade the German Empire
13. German submarine warfare, 1915
Major European battles
14. Austria-Hungary conquers Serbia
15. The 12 battles of the Isonzo
16. The Gallipoli campaign: the Allies try to invade Turkey
17. Bloody battle at Verdun
18. The high point of the Russian war effort
19. The Battle of Jutland: the biggest naval fight of World War I
20. Where the war stood in 1916
The war outside Europe
21. German colonies in Southwest Africa and elsewhere come under attack
22. Germany's most famous naval raider, the Emden
23. Britain conquers Palestine
24. Lawrence of Arabia and Britain's betrayal of Arab allies
25. Ottoman Turks commit genocide against the Armenians
The technology of the Great War
26. Trench warfare on the Western Front
27. This German supergun could hit a target 80 miles away
28. The tank makes its debut
29. The 80 victories of the Red Baron
30. The French rail network in 1914
Allied victory
31. Germany resumes submarine warfare against American ships
32. The Zimmermann telegram: Germany proposes a Mexican war against the US
33. The United States mobilizes for war
34. Russia capitulates in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
35. Spring 1918: Germany's last offensive
36. A continent on the brink of famine
Consequences of the war
37. Changes to Europe after World War I
38. The war devastated European economies
39. Sykes-Picot and the breakup of the Ottoman empire
40. The Bolshevik revolution sparks civil war in Russia
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