CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I World War I

M A I N Militarism

1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures 1) Militarism 1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures France 10% Britain 13% Russia 39% Germany 73% The belief that a nation needs a large military force is called __militarism________________. In the decades before the war, the major powers built up their armies and navies.

2) Alliances In 1914, a tangled network of competing alliances bound European nations together. An __alliance__________ is a group of nations that promise to protect one another. An attack on one nation forced all its allies to come to its aid. Any small conflict could become a larger _conflict____.

ALLIANCES Triple Entente: Triple Alliance: Great Britain Germany Austria-Hungary France Russia Italy

3) Imperialism Britain, France, Italy, and Germany competed for _colonies (markets, trading, resources)___________ in Africa and Asia. However, since Germany had fewer colonies than Britain and France, Germany felt it deserved more colonies to provide it with resource and buy it goods.

4) Nationalism Europeans were very nationalistic, meaning that they had strong feelings of _nationalism_______, loyalty, and protectiveness toward their own country. They wanted to prove their nation was the best! They placed their countries’ interests above all other concerns. In addition, some ethnic groups hoped to form their own separate nations and were willing to fight for such a cause.

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SPARK: ASSASSINATION OF THE ARCHDUKE A single action, the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, started _the Great War (WW1)____. However there were many underlying causes: M.A.I.N.

NEW ALLIANCES When WWI, started in 1914, European nations divided into two, new opposing alliances. _The Triple Alliance became the Central Powers.____ The Triple Entente became the Allied Powers. _________________________________________ Austria-Hungary Germany The Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Serbia Russia France Great Britain Italy And seven other smaller countries FYI: Italy left the Central Powers in 1915 Russia leaves in 1917; the U.S.A. joins in 1917.

What were the underlying causes of World War I? How did the network of alliances make a small event dangerous?