Transcript Causes of WWI

IMPERIALISM
• THE DIRECT TAKEOVER OF A WEAKER NATION OR TERRITORY BY A
STRONGER NATION
• THE UNITED STATES PRACTICED IMPERIALISM WITH CUBA, HAWAII,
PHILIPPINES, PUERTO RICO, AND THE CREATION OF THE PANAMA CANAL.
• EUROPEAN COUNTRIES CONQUERED NATIONS IN AFRICA WITHOUT
RESISTANCE (GERMANY COMPETED AGAINST FRANCE AND GERMANY)
ALLIANCE SYSTEM
• AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND OF AUSTRIAHUNGARY BY A SERBIAN EXTREMIST, RUSSIA, GERMANY, AND OTHER
WORLD POWERS WENT TO WAR TO SUPPORT THEIR ALLIES.
• THE UNITED STATES JOINED THE SIDE OF THE ALLIED POWERS (TRIPLE
ENTENTE) VERSUS THE CENTRAL POWERS (TRIPLE ALLIANCE) WHEN THEY
DECIDED TO GO AGAINST THEIR ISOLATIONISM PHILOSOPHY
NATIONALISM
•THE DEEP DEVOTION OR PRIDE TO ONES
COUNTRY, HEIGHTENED DURING WARTIME
•LED BY PROPAGANDA
•STRONG SUPPORTER OF THE RIGHTS AND
INTERESTS IN YOUR COUNTRY
MILITARISM
• AN “ARMS RACE” TO SEE WHO COULD BUILD UP THEIR
MILITARY THE QUICKEST…NAVY AND GROUND
• NON-ALLIES SAW MILITARISM AS A THREAT TO THEIR
SAFETY
• THE MILITARY RECEIVES SUPPORT FROM THE
COUNTRIES GOVERNMENT
• GROWTH OF NATIONALISM/IMPERIALISM RISES
MILITARY BUDGETS
• GERMANY AND BRITAIN RACE TO BUILD BEST SEA
FLEET – FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, AND U.S. SOON FOLLOW
WORLD WAR ONE BEGINS
• AUSTRIA-HUNGARY DECLARES WAR ON SERBIA AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE
FRANZ FERDINAND IN SARAJEVO
• RUSSIA GOT INVOLVED TO DEFEND SERBIA
• GERMANY, SEEING RUSSIA MOBILIZE, DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA
• FRANCE THEN DECLARES WAR AGAINST GERMANY AND AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
• GERMANY ATTACKS FRANCE THROUGH BELGIUM, DRAWING GREAT BRITAIN INTO WAR WITH GERMANY
• THE UNITED STATES HAD AN ISOLATIONISM APPROACH AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR
WHO HAS AN ADVANTAGE???
• THE TRIPLE ENTENTE, LATER BECAME THE “ALLIES” CONSISTED OF FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN, AND RUSSIA
• THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE CONSISTED OF GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, AND ITALY (ITALY WOULD JOIN THE
ALLIES LATER ON IN THE WAR. LATER CALLED THE “CENTRAL POWERS”
• ALLIES: AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, BRITISH COLONIES, CANADA, FRANCE, FRENCH AFRICAN COLONIES, GREAT
BRITAIN, GREECE, INDIA, ITALY, JAPAN, MONTENEGRO, NEW ZEALAND, PORTUGAL, ROMANIA, RUSSIA,
SERBIA, SOUTH AFRICA, U.S.A (ALL OF THESE COUNTRIES JOINED ON THE SIDE OF THE ALLIES AT VARIOUS
TIMES THROUGHOUT THE WAR)
• CENTRAL POWERS: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, BULGARIA, GERMANY, OTTOMAN EMPIRE
• TRENCH WARFARE WAS THE ULTIMATE STALEMATE
• EACH SIDE HAD DUG AT LEAST 12,000 MILES OF TRENCHES
• THE ALLIES USED 4 TYPES OF TRENCHES- FRONT LINE, SUPPORT, RESERVE,
COMMUNICATION
• THE GERMANS HAD A MUCH HIGHER QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE TRENCHES THAN THE
ALLIES
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