world war 1, a historical summary

WORLD WAR ONE
intro: the name "world war one" shows its uniqueness, in contrast to OTHER wars: this war was "world" all around the world, in contrast to the less famous "balkan" war in 1912, therefore this "world war" TRULY began September 22, 1914, when the "localized" european war spread to the european colonies on the OPPOSITE side of the world. german warships, shot at a polynesian  ally colony french in the pacific ocean. the causes, whether "real or claimed" and the war in europe, were before the world war started.

listing indirect or distant causes can pull before and before. instead a quality historical summary must be brief about pre-start. the first declaration of local war: july 28, 1914 austria on serbia [p. 805]. the local war began date 29: austria bombarded serbia's capital, belgrade. although russia did not declare war, nor send soldiers into serbia for its defense, germany declared war on russia [Aug. 1], claiming russia sided with serbia.
HISTORICAL SUMMARY WW1 [1914 to 1918]
the world war TRULY began Sep. 22, as i will explain, ergo i will only briefly mention the local war that spread to colonies around the planet.
DATE: July 28, 1914. austria declared war on serbia, which started a "localized" war in Central europe. the war spread in all directions as countries joined two sides. the declaration began the war not any causes "real or claimed or blamed" considering austria could restrain themselves.

After germany and brits warred [see below], the war spread to THEIR colonies which changed the war from european to "world".

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Sept. 22, in the pacific ocean, german warships bombarded (british x oops) a french colony in Polynesia, which spread the localized war "around the world." until this day many acts of war occurred in the fraction of planet near austria. briefly: Aug. 3 germany declared war on france when german warships shelled french african colony. on August 4, germany declared war on belgium, which truly was not against austria but far from austria. Germany acted like opportunity to steal land. germany invaded belgium on Aug. 4, ergo that day, british declared war on germany. in late August austria battled russia all before the "world" war began
area one: SEA

the first battle in "world war one" was at sea. until this event, only local battled.

Sept. 22, 1914 german warships in pacific ocean bombarded a French colony in polynesia starting the "world war" spreading to opposite side of planet. also near britin german sub sank 3 large british warships. on india's east coast, a german warship bombarded madras. its name emden and soon brits sank it. on french border, sept. 22 g' repeatedly attacked verdun but failed.

a few naval battles preceded that date but since before "the world" war began so only brief mention:

August 3, 1914 even before g' invaded belgium [4th], german warships bombarded French africa.

aug. 28 british warships attacked germany's west coasts so german navy repelld them.

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sep. 22 start of "world" war 1 as above. since the sea battle of aug. 3 preceded land i summarize sea first.

oct. 29 turkish warships including two given from germany, in black sea's north coast bombarded russia [ukraine had been divided]. the two from g' to ottoman to replace 2 battleships which brits "took" which t' had been building in britain due to turkey siding with germany. in november and december g' battle cruisers shelld british coast, but german policy was not to use their dreadnoughts, which were floating uselessly on west coast.

nov. 1 in pacific by central chile, g' warships assembled from china coast and u.s. coasts, battled brit warships. g sank 2 brit warships. brit sent some of its home gard to south atlantic. they would later destroy 4/5.

dec. 8 off falkland isles around s.e. coast of argentina, those 5 german cruisers that left pacific battled brit navy which sank 4/5 german cruiser class warships. another german cruiser got chased into an east african river.

end 1914 sea.

zone 2, german west side, 1914 [only brief due to pre-war.]

the first land war by germany was after the first german sea battle.

aug. 4 the day after g' declared war on france, and had shelled french africa, g' declared war on belgium and invaded b'. [without declaring "war", germany invaded luxemberg on aug.2] around 2 weeks til

aug' 14 french invaded germany all along the france german border. g' repelled f' before they reached rhine river and soon chased french armies back from north france. french armies in lux. were "forced back" into france. g' continued conquering belgium reaching (and a few days later invaded) brussels b'. meanwhile g' conquered both sides of verdun and from v's west side, conquered south into france until marne river.

sep. 2 g' conquered laon, between paris and belgium. g' did not reach paris but sept. 3. government fled paris 

sep. 5 battle marne, after 4 days fighting, allies succeeded to push germans back north.

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oct. 1-9 g' battled by antwerp belgium on its northwest corner defeating belgian army and british helpers. netherlands nutral. g' conquered far westward until ypres by belgian coast. g' only held about 9% of france area but took from the valuable coal and iron mines. those lines remained almost the same for the next years of war when both sides used "deadly poison gas" [april 22, 1915]. both sides dug trenches and tried to run at the enemy but were "mowed" down by rapid fire rifles. this repeated until 1917. spy planes started shooting at each other adding a new dimension of air war which did not tip either way until u.s. was forced into the war.

Zone 3 germany east side, 1914 austrian north area. pre-world war brief:

aug. 26 austrians invaded north into russia [no poland then] conquering towards lublin. [zamosc battle]. russians succeeded on the east edge of hungary from dubno to lemberg. russia conquerd lemberg on bug river, from austria sept. 13.

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later germany invaded russia eastward occupying land toward Warsaw