1. CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I
World War I

2. M A I N
Militarism

3. 1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures
1) Militarism
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.

4. 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____.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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 Russia leaves in 1917;
the U.S.A. joins in 1917.

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