Identifier: causesmeaningofg00gord (find matches)
Title: The causes and meaning of the great war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Gordy, Wilbur Fisk, 1854-1929
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, Boston, Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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THE TURKISH THEATRE OF WAR Why Tur-key joinsGermany word, They shall not pass. At the end of sixmonths the Germans drew off, with another bafflingdefeat to their record. in. Turkey Enters the War on the Side of Ger-many.—Turning to the east again, we find thatvitally important events were occurring therealso. Turkey had joined Germany by secret treatyjust before the war began, though not actively en-
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86 THE CAUSES AND MEANING OF The Alliesdesire toinfluenceBulgariaand Greece gaged in the war for some months. The allianceseemed to Turkey wise, for not only was she thenatural ally of Germany as the key to her east-ern plan, but Germany in turn was Turkeys onlydefense against Russia. Germany, she expected,would devour her ultimately, but without Ger-many the Allies were certain to dismember her atonce. 112. Turkeys Accession Adds Two FormidableDangers to the Allied List.—Turkeys accessionadded two formidable dangers to the allied list.One, an attack on the Suez Canal to cut off Englandfrom the short route to India, was attempted atonce; the other, a land invasion of India throughPersia, soon followed. Even though unsuccessful,these attempts forced England to fit out and sup-port two more long-distance armaments to meetthe new dangers. 113. The Allies Attempt to Capture Constanti-nople (1915).—The Allies planned to attack Con-stantinople and cut the Turco-German communica-tions wi

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