1. WWI: What are the causes of WWI?

2. Long-Term Causes of WWI Nationalism: devotion to the interests & culture of your nation Imperialism: fight to control areas around the world Militarism: building of many weapons and a large military Alliance System: making “friends” with nationsAlliance System

3. The Spark! June, 1914: ________________________ assassinated in _______________ Alliance system pulls in one country after another into war Germany follows the ______________, to avoid fighting on two frontsGermany Archduke Franz Ferdinand Sarajevo, Bosnia Schlieffen Plan

4. Trench Warfare Allies & Germans “dig trenches” for a long battle 300 miles of trenches across Francetrenches ____________ : muddy space in- between trenches filled w/ barbed wire, bombs ●Slide 12Slide 12 No man’s land

5. Please review your notes by answering the following questions. 1.What are the 4 long-term causes to WWI? 2.Why were so many Euro. nations pulled into the conflict?

6. German Soldiers

7. Trench fighting

8. Europe at the start of WWIWWI

9. The Balkan Peninsula; The “Powder Keg of EuropeEurope”

10. The Schlieffen Plan

11. Trenches Trenches across France and Belgium