DBWI: Need help with my homework!!

Ok, so my history teacher assigned this big essay about a week ago...or maybe it was two weeks.....and I haven't even started it yet!:eek: The due date is fast approaching, and I am looking at these questions, and my mind is just blanking!!:confused: Please help me you guys, I don't want to have to take summer school!!:(:( It's IB style questions, and I just have to choose two of the four. Still, I hate these questions, they are so overlycomplicated!:mad:

Question 1: To what extent was the 1894 Anglo-Russian war an example of Total War?

Question 2: Compare and contrast the foriegn policies of two right-wing European leaders during the Armisitce Period.

Question 3: Name and describe six factors that lead to the Great War.

Question 4: What effects did two of the following have on the coarse of the Great War?
-Shifting Alliances
-Aid to revolutionary groups
-Non-European Powers
-New Technology




I don't know the answer to any of these! Help!
 
Question 3: Name and describe six factors that lead to the Great War.
OOC: I'm gonna do a Victorian WW1 if that's ok. If not, boot it out of your canon. Or perhaps you can revise it (notably, the Trent affair can be removed if you want it to just mean that these will be the alliances in a 1914-1918 world war one, and not those of a premature WW1 that overlaps the Civil war directly).
IC:Here's a few

1)North/South division culturally, economically, and so on in the United States.
-The Northern and Southern US were always divided in many ways. The North was made up of various immigrant groups, industrialized and had a large population and was rather progressive. The South was solidly Anglo-Saxon, agricultural and based on a landed aristocracy, and rather set in its ways. Thus, the two were rather like two different nations already.

2)Issue of Abolition and Slavery in the US.
-The US had been one of the last nations to have slavery and there was a growing movement in the North to abolish it entirely. However, the South viewed it as integral to their culture and economy and thought that the Negro was too childish and ignorant as a race for liberty. Racism also existed in both areas, though different (The North like the race, but hated the individual; the South hated the race but loved the individuals)

3)American Civil War
-These factors eventually erupted into a civil war between the two areas with Republican President "Abraham Lincoln's" election in 1860 (which made many southerners fear abolition would come with him). This conflict would of course be the spark that would set the rest of the world a flame as powers took sides with their friends.

4)French and British support of Confederate States
-The British and French both supported the CSA. This drew dually from a need for cotton for their textile mills, as well as a want to hurt the United States which they feared could become a competing power soon. Following the Trent affair, events very much snowballed out of control.

5)Russo-American relations
-The US and Russian Empire had very good relations during this time. As Britain and Germany came to the CSA's aid with alliance and support, the Americans forged an alliance with the Russian Empire.

6)German political division with France and Britain
-Germany had also had conflicting interest with France and Britain. Hence, the US also found a willing ally in this nation.
 
Well, the most obvious cause of the Ango-Russian War was the complete collapse of the Ottomans. You could probably get at least three reasons out of that.

Edit: Bah! I misread the questions. But I have to disagree with the above. The Great War was, at least between Britain and Russia, seen as a rematch.
 
Well, the most obvious cause of the Ango-Russian War was the complete collapse of the Ottomans. You could probably get at least three reasons out of that.

Edit: Bah! I misread the questions. But I have to disagree with the above. The Great War was, at least between Britain and Russia, seen as a rematch.

Wait......I'm confused now. Why was it a rematch? Who won the war again? While the Confedarcy still exists today(really freakin small though and filled with freakin redecks*!) Germany also exists. But they were on opposite sides! I remember watching a video about how Russia dismantled parts of the Ottomanese people! Goddamn, it's not like I'll need any of this knowledge anyway!



*Combination of 'Red Necks'
 
If I'm not completely off my rocker, the Great War began in 1907 with Britain and Russia on opposite sides. So those two nations saw themselves as having a rematch for the Anglo-Russian war.
 
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