1. Causes of World War One Imperialism

2. What is Imperialism? Imperialism is when a powerful country claims a different area of the world for itself This creates an ‘Empire’ The Smaller Countries are called ‘Colonies’ Canada was once a ‘Colony’ of Britain

3. many nations had looked to expand their economic base and power through the collection of colonies leading up to WWI QUESTION: If having a colony brings a nation a bigger population, what positive effect could this have on selling the nation’s goods ?

4. the size of empire was a point of pride for nations

5. Britain in particular bragged that the sun never sets on its empire Watch the time change in the next diagram – all the countries were colonies of Britain before WWI The rotating circle represent the sun at the highest point of the day

7. QUESTION: –What does the statement ‘The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire’ mean to you?

8. Look at this picture – what do you think it represents?

9. England Colony

10. QUESTION: –What do you think this picture says about the control that England (Britain) had over the world because of its many colonies?

11. France had a lot of colonies in Africa even small nations such as Belgium and the Netherlands had colonies in Africa, South America and Asia

12. Germany had joined the race for colonies late and had some jealousy towards Britain and France – they wanted ‘their place in the sun’

13. QUESTIONS: –Looking at the following Map, count how many colonies each country has –Which colonies are the biggest? Who do they belong to?

15. Germany’s jealousy over not having colonies was a major cause of WWI Germany thought their military power could gain them more colonies

16. Germany’s ‘place in the sun’ was supposed to look like this: