1. Strategy Game
Introduction

2. Prompt #6
What strategies (conferences, deals, threats, etc.) did you see during the game fRIday? What outcomes were there?

3. What were the M-A-I-N causes leading up to WWI?Pg

4. Understanding Check! Partner - Youngest partner shares.
Explain how militarism occurred in Europe.
Partner - Oldest partner shares.
Explain the imperialism that was going on.
Partner - Partner with the longest hair shares.
Explain how nationalism contributed to the war.

5. The Spark
June 28, 1914 — heir of Austria-Hungary (A-H), Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife, are assassinated
Happened in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia (province in A-H)

6. The Spark
Serb gov’t told Serbs living in Bosnia to rebel against A-H’s rule
Gavrilo Princip — 19 yr. old Bosnian
“Black Hand” (secret Serbian Nationalist society)

7. What are the M-A-I-N causes leading to WWI?
*Tangled alliances bring everyone to war

8. The Mess A-H declares war on Serbia  Russia allies with S 
France allies with R 
Germany allied with A-H, worried b/c of geography sandwich 
G attacked F through Luxembourg and Belgium 
Bel and Lux were allies with Great Britain

9. Alliances

10. The Sides

11. Map Quiz Thursday!
Know: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Serbia, France, Russia, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Spain

12. War Begins July 28, 1914 - A-H declares on Serbia
August 1, Germany declares war on Russia
Schlieffen Plan—Knock out France first, then Russia
To get to France, had to go through Belgium, neutral country  G.B. declares war

13. Stalemate Stalemate: when neither side can gain an advantage
Germany within 30 miles of France
Both sides dig trenches to hold their position
Muddy, rat infested, bodies, disease (trench foot)
Estimated 475 miles of trenches
Gain no more than a few miles with huge human costs  not successful

14. Trench Warfare

16. Soldiers charging across no-man’s land hit with artillery
“Modern” Warfare
Soldiers charging across no-man’s land hit with artillery
Battle of the Somme (1916) lost 20,000 (Allies) in one day
Other tactics
Tunnels
Burned fields, killed livestock, and poisoned wells
German subs torpedoed any boat
British ships blockaded food to Germans

24. What were the M-A-I-N causes for WWI?
Recap
What were the M-A-I-N causes for WWI?
What was the spark that ignited the declarations of war?