Causes of the Great War
WWI
Journal 3/25
You are Great Britain; you have the strongest
Navy in the world. Close to your borders is the
newly powerful nation of Germany has started
a campaign of militarism. What do you think
this word means? Why might this make you
nervous?
Journal 3/26
Turn to page 828. Read the section from the novel All
Quiet on the Western Front. Answer the questions
at the bottom right.
Journal 3/28
Get out your nationalism note guide (it says
“Remember the Hapsburgs” at the top). Turn to
page 707; the map there represents all the different
ethnic groups (nations) within the Hapsburg empire
before WWI. Use the map and your note guide to
write four sentences answering the questions:
1) How did all the different nations in the Haps.
Empire create conflict before WWI?
2) What did this have to do with the assassination of
Francis Ferdinand?
Journal 3/29
Read about Trench Warfare on page 824. Answer the
questions on the bottom of page 825.
Journal 3/30
1) Write a thesis about the causes of WWI (the 3
‘isms’ and the other one).
2) Write a topic sentence for each cause discussing
how each lead to the start of the war.
Fighting WWI
A NEW KIND OF WAR
3 ‘isms’ and…the other one
• Imperialism When one country controls
all aspects of:
• Militarism The rapid build up:
• Nationalism An intense love of:
• Alliances When two or more nations:
Imperialism
• Napoleon's Empire
• Meet the ‘Iron
Chancellor’ and his
puppet king
• Nothing a little WAR
can’t fix…
Militarism
• How German
industrialism leads to
Militarism
• A warning from the
‘Iron Chancellor’
• Kaiser William II
Nationalism
• Diverse Hapsburg
Empire
• Austria becomes
Austria- Hungary
• The assassination of
Franz Ferdinand
Two Front War
• Schlieffen Plan was:
– Attack ______Belgium
– Causes______to join:
• The plan ____
– Russia was _______than
Germany thought
– France and Britain push:
• Both sides ‘dig in’
meaning they fight in
_______
Stalemate on the Western Front
• A stalemate is:
• _____ cause a stalemate
– No one will cross:
– Trenches can be easily:
• Modern tech does not:
– Poison gas was________
– Tanks could roll over
trenches but:
– Aircrafts had little effect:
• Zeppelins:
• “Dog fights”:
More Modern Technology
• Submarines
– U-Boats (unterseeboot):
– U-boats sink ships:
– The Allies form convoys:
• Rapid fire Machine guns
– Less re-_____
– Higher____________
• Long rang artillery
– Like a _____
– Hit target from up to:
Breaking the stalemate, Total war and seeking ‘peace w/o victory’
SLOW END TO A LONG WAR
• Read WWI Battlefield (385) War on the Home
front (387)
• What were the effects of trench warfare on the
advancement of the troops?
• How/why did trench warfare lead to the
development of new weapons?
• Copy and complete the chart
WEAPONS
POISON GAS
TANKS
DID IT EFFECT THE STALEMATE? WHY?
AIRCRAFTS
• Identify two other weapons used during WWI.
Total War:
• To fight war the gov’t
needs
– Bodies:
– Money:
– Souls!:
• Total war will
accomplish this…
– Bodies= Conscription:
– Money= War Bonds:
– Souls!= Propaganda:
What is the purpose of each image? What
is it meant to make you do/think/feel?
Propaganda Poster
• Read the bit on info about propaganda on page 387
• Your task is to create propaganda for the Allies’ war
efforts (in other words to support the Allies). Here
are the rules for creating good, effective
propaganda:
1. More images. Less words.
2. A clear message. What are you asking citizens to do?
What’s the consequence if they ignore you?
3. MAKE ME FEEL SOMETHING!!! Give me images that
“tug at my heart strings!”
Journal 4/3
If you had to blame the Great War
on one of the following who would it
be and why?
1) Austria-Hungary
2) The Black Hand/Serbia
3) Germany
4) Great Britain
5) France
Ending the Stalemate
• Russia leaves due to:
– Czar is_________
– New leader:
– Germany can focus on:
• US enters
– Germans sink Lusitania:
– British intercept the
Zimmermann telegram
• Kaiser asks________to
join them in war
• Americans start to
__________Germany
Peace without victory
• German gov’t seeks an
armistice or:
• Paris Peace Conference
leaders of the ______
______meet to:
– _________is not invited
– None of the:
• Treaty of Versailles
punishes________
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Name four countries from the Allied Powers +4
Name two countries from the Central Powers +2
Name the four causes of WWI +4
How did Militarism start the war (specific example)? +1
How did Imperialism start the war (specific example)? +1
How did nationalism start the war (specific example)? +1
What caused the Alliances to kick in that started WWI +1 (Bonus if
you can tell me the orders the ‘dominoes fell’)?
What was the Schlieffen Plan? +1
What country was fighting a two front war? +1 What country was on
her WESTERN front? +1 Which was on her EASTERN front +1?
What caused the Stalemate on the Western front? +1
What member of the Allied Powers was NOT invited to the Paris
Peace Conference? +1 Why +1