1. WWI

2. Brief Overview 1914-1918 Highest amount of casualties Chemical weapons
Trench warfare
Four M.A.I.N causes

3. Four Causes
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism

4. Militarism Military funding and growth are priorities of the state.
France and Germany both doubled their armies between 1870 and 1914
Battleships!
British Dreadnought
knots (17 or 18)

5. What effect does this have?
Arms race
Governments want to show off the power of their new ‘toys’
Armies get antsy

6. Alliances
An agreement between two or more parties to give each other help, if needed
Why is this important?
What were the alliances?
Triple Alliance (aka. Central Powers): Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Triple Entente (aka. The Allies): Britain, France, and Russia

8. Imperialism
The policy of establishing economic, political, and military dominance over weaker nations
Scramble for Africa
“Paint the World British Red”

9. Britain
France
Germany
Belgium
Spain
Portugal

11. What effect does this have?
Rise in Industrialism:
New resources
New markets
Rivalry between countries who did not acquire as many new lands (Germany)

12. Nationalism Countries should be formed based off of cultural identity
Where does this identity come from?
Ethnicity
Beliefs
Language
Political
Customs

13. The Effects of Nationalism
Austro- Hungarian Empire
Problem?

14. ? Two Alliance German attempts Systems to gain colonies annoy
in existence
German attempts
to gain colonies annoy
France, Britain
and Russia
French unhappiness
at the loss of
Alsace and Lorraine in
1871
Arms race between
Germany and
France ?
Austria and Russia
competing for
influence in
SE Europe
Naval rivalry
between Britain
and Germany

15. The Black Hand Society 1911- Serbian men create a secret society
Bosnia annexed by A-H in 1908
Want freedom from A-H Empire (Bosnia and Serbia as one united country)
Objective: "To realize the national ideal, the unification of all Serbs. This organization prefers terrorist action to cultural activities; it will therefore remain secret."

16. Francis Ferdinand Heir to A-H throne
Men were sent to Sarajevo by Black Hand Society to assassinate him
In June 1914, Gavrilo Princip succeeds

17. A Conflict
Serbian Prime minister refused to hand the men over so A-H could persecute them
Three days later A-H declared war on Serbia
A-H allied with Germany and Serbia allied with Russia, Russia allies with France, France with Britain

18. The alliances

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