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.
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IN OTHER WORDS…
Russia
Austria-Hungary
France
Great Britain
United States
Serbia
Germany
Italy only has allegiance to
Germany in attacked
Italy (switches
sides)
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
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Gemany
Austria-Hungary
Italy
Russia
France
Great Britain
Serbia
Luxemburg
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Wife