1. Causes, Outbreak, and Course of WWI

2. EQ How did this conflict truly become a ”world” war?
What were the major causes of WWI?

3. M ilitarism A lliances I mperialism N ationalism
Causes of WWI- MAIN
M ilitarism A lliances I mperialism N ationalism

4. Militarism Conscription Arms Race Glorification of War
Causes of World War One
Militarism
Growth of armies
Conscription
Arms Race
Glorification of War
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia with his cousin King George V of Great Britain.

5. Causes of World War One
Alliances …fear and distrust led the powers to protect themselves through alliances. Treaties pledged to defend each other if attacked.
*Triple Entente Triple Alliance
France Germany
Great Britain Austria Hungary
Russia Italy
1907
1882

6. Imperialism Causes of World War One
Competition for colonies needed for industrial raw materials

7. *extreme pride in one’s country
Causes of World War One
Nationalism-
*extreme pride in one’s country
*Balkans - Serbian (Slavic) Nationalism
* French / German Nationalism- resentment over Alsace/Lorraine

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9. (related to both Nicholas II and
Leaders
Great Britain
(Constitutional Monarchy)
King George V
(related to both Nicholas II and
Wilhelm II)
Prime Minister Lloyd George

10. Austria Hungary Leaders (Absolute Monarchy) (Heir) Archduke Francis
Ferdinand
King Franz Joseph

11. Leaders
Russia
(Absolute Monarchy)
Tsar Nicholas II

12. Leaders
Germany
(Absolute Monarchy)
Wilhelm II

13. (Presidential Democracy)
Leaders
United States
(Presidential Democracy)
Woodrow Wilson

14. Italy France Leaders Prime Minister- Georges Clemenceau Prime Minister
King Victor
Emmanuel III
France
President-
Raymond Poincare
Prime Minister- Georges
Clemenceau
Prime Minister
Vittorio Orlando

15. Outbreak of War- The Balkans
The Serbian Problem
Bosnia had been taken over by the AH empire ( )
Serbia felt threatened by the takeover because they could be next
Serbia wanted to take action

16. Outbreak of WWI
Assassination ! “Death to the Tyrant!”
* Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife Sophie
(heir to the Austrian/Hungarian throne)
* June Sarajevo (Bosnia)
* Gavrilo Princip
(Black Hand – Serbian Nationalist group )

17. Displayed in the Military Museum in Vienna

20. Austrian Ultimatum – Serbia rejects
Outbreak of WWI
Austrian Ultimatum – Serbia rejects
*Germany provides full support to AH
*AH declares war on Serbia - August 1914
* Serbian appeals to for Russia for help. Both are Slavic ethnically – Russia mobilizes
Germany declares war on Russia
Serbia - King Peter
(Slavic)

21. - Defeat France within 6 weeks - Move forces to east defeat Russia.
Outbreak of WWI
Conflict Broadens
Germany: The Schlieffen Plan
Invade France through neutral Belgium (Britain declares war on Germany)
- Defeat France within 6 weeks
- Move forces to east defeat Russia.
By August all the great powers were at war

22. The Fronts Western Front Germany’s Shlieffen Plan in effect
* First Battle of the Marne
Stop German advance
“Taxis of the Marne”
Stalemate between France and Germany
Trench Warfare

24. Trench Warfare
Machine gun and artillery made remaining on surface impossible
Each side created huge networks of trenches, easy to defend, very difficult to take.
Life in the trenches:
Poor food and medical care
Little sleep
Trenchfoot
Cold
No Man’s Land
Russian Soldier

31. Eastern Front Greater Mobility
Russia advanced into Germany but was stopped at the Battle of Tannenburg (1915)
Easy Russian defeat, heavy Russian losses
Czar Nicholas II is facing challenges at home

32. The Home Fronts in Europe
Little sympathy at home
Growth in governments
Propaganda
Suppression of criticism
Labor groups dissatisfied
Weakens Germany
Russia falls
Women in work force

33. British block supplies to Central Powers
The War Beyond Europe
British block supplies to Central Powers
Uses imperial resources, manpower
Indians deployed in many areas
French
Use African troops
Japan
Fights Germans in China, the Pacific

35. German submarines attack American shipping
The War Beyond Europe
Ottomans
Side with Germany
Armenian genocide
United States
Begins neutral
German submarines attack American shipping

36. Zimmerman Telegram- Telegraph from German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmerman, stating that Germany would help Mexico “reconquer” the lands they lost if Mexico would ally itself with Germany.
April 1917, U.S. declares war on Germany, joins the Allies.