1. Causes of WW1

2. The Spark: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Prince of Austria-Hungary Archduke + wife Sophie

3. June 28, 1914 Archduke Ferdinand + wife Sophie assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia

4. Why? Archduke’s visit to Bosnia was controversial Bosnia > part of Austro-Hungarian Empire neighbouring Serbia claimed it as part of “Greater Serbia”, b/c many Bosnians considered themselves Serbian killer: Gavrillo Princip, a Serbian nationalist of the Black Hand

5. Can the shooting of one man start a world war? Or, were there other long-term factors involved?

6. Background Crumbling Empires: Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, Russian

7. What modern-day countries had once belonged to the Austro- Hungarian, Ottoman, Russian Empires?

8. 1914 Europe 2013

9. MAIN Militarism Alliances Imperialism Nationalism

10. MAIN - Nationalism : intense loyalty towards one’s own country or culture. * a powerful force Many nationalities w’in the Crumbling Empires resented being dominated by a foreign power they wanted independence (political and cultural) this caused many ___________ in the region Can you think of any modern day examples of this?

11. Minority groups in Austro- Hungary

12. Modern issues of Nationalism

14. MAIN some countries felt vulnerable to attack and formed alliances in the early 1900’s. Alliances: agreements to support one another in the event of an invasion by another country

15. Triple Alliance Germany, Austro-Hungary, Italy (Italy was part of the alliance, but joined WW1 later) also known as Central Powers

16. Triple Entente England, France, Russia surrounded Germany in the hopes of decreasing chance of war...which had the opposite effect... also called Allies

17. Eve of WW1

18. MAIN - Militarism massive build up of armaments and armies in early 1900’s (Germany especially...)

19. Militarism (con’t) all countries were trying to maintain the balance of power: remain equal strength in military and alliances to competition (“keeping up with the Jones’ mentality”) eg: Germany and Britain Navy competition - building up their Navy competing against one another by 1914 - both BRIT + GER had MANY warships. They were ready for war!

20. Who are the players in this cartoon? What do you think they are doing?

21. MAIN - Imperialism Imperialism: acquisition of overseas territories. late 1800’s - Europe’s race for Africa Africa rich in gold, diamonds, ivory European countries challenged eachother for the rights to overseas territories and those territories’ resources

22. Scramble for Africa, 1914

23. Imperialism Asia