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- Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire became known as
: <u>the Central Powers</u>.
- The Western Front was characterized by <u>trench warfare that kept both sides in virtually the same positions for four years</u>.
- The Schlieffen Plan was <u>Germany’s plan for a two-front war with Russia and France, which had formed a military alliance.</u>
Allow me to add a bit of explanation about the last item, the Schlieffen Plan.
The military plans laid before World War I presupposed a major war between the countries which were tied together with alliances. Because the Triple Entente had Britain, France and Russia as allies, Germany thought if a war began it would need to fight on two fronts -- west and east. So German Field Marshall Alfred von Schlieffen drew up war plans that said attack France first, quickly, and then hold that territory while deploying forces to contend with Russia in the east. So when Germany declared war on Russia in 1914, the first thing it did was to march through Belgium to go and attack France. Thus the war spread and became instantly a more global conflict.
The impact was most severe in the Caribbean, where by 1600 Native American populations on most islands had plummeted by more than 99 percent. Across the Americas, populations fell by 50 percent to 95 percent by 1650. The disease component of the Columbian Exchange was decidedly one-sided.
How did the slave trade ends?
In 1807, the British government passed an Act of Parliament abolishing the slave trade throughout the British Empire. Slavery itself would persist in the British colonies until its final abolition in 1838. However, abolitionists would continue campaigning against the international trade of slaves after this date.
When did the Atlantic slave trade begin to decline?
1860s The Atlantic slave trade was abolished over a 30-year period ending with Portugal's 1836 ban on slave trading. But legal abolition did not end the still profitable trade. It continued illegally well into the 19th century.
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Benin plaques at the British Museum Many of the plaques now in The British Museum were collected during the British Punitive Expedition in 1897.
<span>Civilian Conservation Corps of 1933 - it was part of FDR's New Deal programs to bring the country out of the Depression.</span>