By: Hajar Ahmed,
Ann Galeas, Kevin
Codera, Eva Santiago
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Imperialism
• Imperialism: When a
stronger country takes
over a weaker country
economically,
politically, and
socially.
• France belonged to the
Triple Entente along
with England and
Russia.
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Imperialism cont.
• France increased
rivalry with
Germany who had
entered the
scramble to acquire
colonies.
• France competed
for economic
expansion in Africa.
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Imperialism cont.
• France had been the
dominant power in Europe
for almost 200 yrs.
• France seeks to isolate
Germany. France’s forms
an alliance first with
Russia and Great Britain
known as the Triple
Entente.
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Alliance System
• The two main alliances
during WWI were the Triple
Entente and the Triple
Alliance.
• The Triple Entente consisted
of Russia, France, and
Britain.
• The Triple Alliance consisted
of Germany, AustriaHungary and Italy.
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Alliance System Cont.
• There was also the AustroSerbian Alliance.
• Austria-Hungary made an
alliance with Serbia to
stop Russia from gaining
control of Serbia.
• Also there was the AngloRussian Entente.
• This was an agreement
between Britain and
Russia.
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Alliance System Cont.
• There was a Franco-Russian
Alliance.
• Russia had formed an
alliance with France to
protect against Germany and
Austria-Hungary.
• There was also the Dual
Alliance
• Germany and Austria-Hungary
made an alliance to protect
themselves from Russia.
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• All in all, all of these topics led up
to what had made and consisted
World War I.
• The causes of World War I then ld
up to WWII.
• Then the Causes of World War II
ended up with the creations of
new nations, the founding of the
United Nations, etc.
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Militarism /Arms Race
Militarism - a strong military spirit
or policy.
Arms Race - rivalry between
countries to dominate in quantity
and quality of military arms.
Militarism /Arms Race
• France knew that they going to be
attacked by their rival Germany.
• With the threat of German
invasion they increased troop
strength and power.
Militarism / Arms race
• The French started to draft colonial
subjects to increase troop numbers.
• The French started to use
propaganda posters as a means to
get men, money, influence, and
resources into the military campaign.
Militarism / Arms race
o The French were the 1st once to
use tear gas grenades against the
Germans on august 1914.
o The French also developed their
own portable flamethrower used
in trench attacks between 191718.
o Hotchkiss 8mm M1914 machine
gun the French army's standard
heavy tripod mounted machine
Militarism / Arms race
• France and Germany had an
arms race for who can have
bigger a army.
• Both of the countries armies
doubled in size between 1870
and 1914.
Biography
• Original Material © Michael Duffy 2000-07, SafeSurf Rated
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.htm
• Suzanne Karpilovsky (IB Diploma 1996) aria Fogel (IB Diploma
1996) livia Kobelt (Class of 1996)
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