1. Do-Now
Write down everything you know about WWI – words, weapons, countries, phrases, etc.

2. Causes of WWI
August 1914

3. How did long WWI start? Long Term Causes
M - Militarism
A - Alliances
I - Imperialism
N - Nationalism

4. Militarism Development of armed forces to back up growing empires
Arms race develops
Other countries have guns so we need protection

7. Alliances
Countries begin alliances to protect themselves

9. Alliances

10. Imperialism
Rivalries develop as countries fight for power and who gets what

11. The amount of lands 'owned' by Britain and France increased the rivalry with Germany who had entered the scramble to acquire colonies late and only had small areas of Africa. Note the contrast in the map below.

12. Nationalism
Everyone wants what is best for their country and this leads to a power struggle

13. What is a powder keg? Balkan area had a long history of
nationalist uprising
and ethnic clashes

14. Direct Cause of WWI
Assassination of Archduke, Franz Ferdinand (Central Powers) and his wife by Serbian revolutionary, Gavrilo Princip (Allied Powers)

15. Triple Entente (Allies) Triple Alliance (Central Powers)
France (Clemenceau)
Revenge (F-P War)
Alsace & Loraine
England (Lloyd-George)
Balance of power
Russia (Czar Nicholas II)
Warm water port
Pan-slavism
Serbia (Czar Nicholas II)
Pan-slavism (national unity & independence)
Germany (Kaiser Wilhelm)
Status as a world power
Pan-slavism OK under A-H
A-H (Franz Joseph II)
Regain former glory of Hapsburg empire
Ottoman Empire
Control in the ME
Italy