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Do Now: WWI
• Welcome back! I hope you all had a fantastic break!
• Start a new “Do Now” page for our first unit of the semester: World War I
• Answer the following in 3-5 complete sentences: • What do you know about World War I?
• List any information you can think of. (What caused it, what happened, why is it important, etc.).
• If you do not know anything about, write what you think it might have been about!
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Announcements
• New Semester
• Binder Set up
• Rockstar!
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Marching Toward War Objective: Explain and analyze the long term causes of
World War I
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What was wWI?
• A global war centered in Europe.
• Also known as The Great War.
• July 1914 – November 1918
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What caused the Great war?
• Long Term Causes: MAIN
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Militarism
• Definition: a policy of glorifying the military and keeping it prepared for war
• Caused by: desire to protect overseas colonies from other countries
• European countries want to have the most powerful military in the world • Start an “arms race” = a competition between nations for
superiority in the development and gathering of weapons
• Countries built up massive armies and stocks of weapons
• Contribution to onset of WWI: countries were ready to fight
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alliances
• Definition: a union or association formed for mutual benefit
• Caused by: growing rivalries & mutual mistrust among European countries
• Purpose: to protect themselves from opposing armed forces and keep countries from fighting
• Contribution to onset of WWI: • Some alliances had been made secretly, causing suspicion • alliances drew other countries into war when countries
began fighting
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Imperialism
• Definition: when a strong nation expands its territory
• Purpose: to expand empire as far as possible to become more powerful
• Contribution to onset of WWI: competition over colonies creates mistrust among European nations
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Nationalism
• Definition: pride and deep devotion to one’s nation
• Caused by: nations wanting to assert their power and independence
• Contribution to onset of WWI: • Some areas had a great deal of ethnic unrest and groups
wanted independence