WHAT CAUSED WORLD WAR 1?

WHY DID WAR BREAK OUT?

• M – Militarism: building an army. • A – Alliance: friendships made

between countries• I – Imperialism: one nation dominating

another

N – Nationalism: pride in one’s country

MILITARISM

• Idea of building an army.

• Prior to World War 1 it was fighting in terms of close to your enemy.

• Used trenches, machine guns, tanks, etc…

ALLIANCES• Triple Alliance

• Germany

• Italy

• Austria-Hungary

• The Balkans

• Bulgaria

• Serbia

• Triple Entente

• Russia

• France

• Great Britain

IMPERIALISM

• You had countries such as Great Britain and France that were conquering other areas around the world

• Great Britain – Africa

• France – South America

• End up with Colonies all around the world. Fighting happened here too.

• Germany didn’t have a lot of colonies and did want them. Tried to take over France and Great Britain’s colonies in certain places.

NATIONALISM

• The pride we have to be American or any nationality.

• NOTHING to do with politics and how you feel about the leader.

• It’s how you feel to be a certain nationality ie: American

HOW DID WE GET HERE?

WELL…

• Archduke Francis Ferdinand or Austria-Hungary is in Sarajevo.

• This is near Serbia

• Archduke Francis Ferdinand is in line for the throne.

• This would be like someone killing Prince Harry of England today.

• He is assassinated by Serbs.

• CHAOS BREAKS OUT…

STAY WITH ME ON THIS…

• Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia because of the assassination.

• Serbia has a secret alliance with Russia

• Germany being a friend of Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia.

• Russia however, has an alliance with France.

• Germany declares war on France so France declares war on Germany.

• Italy is sitting out because no one has attacked Germany yet.

• Great Britain gets involved because they are allies of France.

• United States declares war on Germany after they sank more of our ships.

IN OTHER WORDS…

Russia

France

Great Britain

United States

Serbia

Austria-Hungary

Germany

Italy (switches sides)

Italy only has allegiance to Germany in attacked

WHAT HAPPENS IS…

• Archduke of Austria-Hungary and his wife are killed.

• Everyone declares war on each other as said before

• Italy is Germany’s ally BUT ONLY IF GERMANY IS ATTACKED!

• Hoped to sit this war out. (Didn’t happen, they switched sides)

• Neutral countries is what brought Great Britain into the war.

• Luxemburg was told by Germany in not so many words,

• “Let us through your country or we will destroy you”

• Luxemburg of course responded with something like “over our dead bodies”

• Germany attacked. So Great Britain an ally of Luxemburg got involved.

NEED SOME STUDENT VOLUNTEERS

• Gemany

• Austria-Hungary

• Italy

• Russia

• France

• Great Britain

• Serbia

• Luxemburg

• Archduke Francis Ferdinand

• Wife