1. LONG TERM CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I Growing sense of nationalism and imperialism fuels competition and antagonistic feelings among European powers This will lead to a large scale military buildup by world powers Fear and jealousies among European powers results in creation of alliance system The easiest way to remember the long term causes of WWI is the word MAIN M-militarismA-alliancesI- imperialismN-nationalism

2. ALLIESCENTRAL POWERS Great Britain Germany France Ottoman Empire Russia Austrian-Hungarian Empire Serbia Bulgaria Belgium Italy(will switch sides in 1915) Canada Japan Australia Greece US(not official until 1917)

3. Situation in Europe, Spring 1914 World powers with a history of not liking each other are locked in global competition, living on top of each other, motivated by self interests, are armed to the teeth, and now have friends who will fight with them Europe is a powder keg awaiting a spark Spark is provided by Serbian teen Gavrilo Princip who leaps out of a crowd, produces a gun and shoots Archduke Franz Ferdinand (heir to A-H Empire throne) and his wife Sophie. Princip was a member of the secret Serbian group Black Hand A-H Empire was very cross at Serbia, they decide it would be good to declare war on them Alliance system will kick in and WWI is on!

6. The War Begins German Army will start war by invading Belgium Plan is to win quick victory in west, conquer France, then focus on east and defeating Russia Allied Armies retreat to Marne River in France in Sept. 1914. By the spring thaw, a defensive war had developed Both sides had dug trenches and a stalemate ensued Neither side could gain the upper hand Military technology was ahead of medical technology, so the devastation was on a scale never seen before in human history (1st Battle of the Somme River)

7. NEW WEAPONS OF WAR This is a tank; it was slow but packed a punch.

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9. Machine gun.

10. Submarine.

11. Poison gas

12. Gas Attack As Seen From An Aeroplane

13. Gas Mask.

14. WWI Airplane

15. US Stays Out In 1914, public opinion said no to war, however they did support the Allies Britain cut cable in Atlantic, all war news is filtered through them. Reports of German atrocities and stronger cultural and economic ties with Britain increases sympathy British naval blockade creates food shortages in Germany German U-boats target boats in Atlantic, including US flagged ships and passenger liners(Lusitania) Germans promise to stop USW with Sussex Pledge, they go back on it later

16. US Doesn’t stay out Despite running on a “he kept us out of war” platform, Wilson is forced to act against Central Powers Germany resumed USW in Atlantic and we intercepted a cable to Mexico, in that Germany promised to fund an attack on the US by Mexican Army and when they won they would get back Texas. (Zimmerman Note) Wilson gets mad, as does Congress they declare war on Central powers in April 1917. Collapse of Russia also plays into US declaration of war.