Please sit in your assigned seats and
quietly follow the directions below:
Answer the following question in your bell ringer
notebook:
How do you think imperialism led to WWI?
EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER!
Please sit in your assigned seats and
quietly follow the directions below:
Use the poems in the Edmodo folder “White Man’s
Burden” to address the following prompt.
After reading both Kipling and Crosby’s poems, on
the “White Man’s Burden” write a constructed
response (1 paragraph or more) that discusses the
two poems and evaluates your position on
imperialism (which one do you agree with?). Be
sure to support your position with evidence from
the poems (give examples and explain!).
Please sit in your assigned seats and
quietly follow the directions below:
Answer the following question in your bell ringer
notebook. EXPLAIN your answer!
5) Which 1899 statement established America's
right to trade with China without interference from
European nations?
A) the Monroe Doctrine
B) the Fourteen Points
C) the Open Door Policy
D) the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
EXTRA CREDIT
Write your own poem on Imperialism and “The
White Man’s Burden” (spreading culture,
Christianity and democracy to other countries).
Make sure to:
1. Clarify your position (for or against
imperialism)
2. Use correct grammar
3. Be creative!
USHC Standard 5: The student will demonstrate an
understanding of domestic and foreign developments
that contributed to the emergence of the United
States as a world power in the twentieth century.
USHC 5.4: Analyze the causes and consequences of
United States involvement in WWI, including the
failure of neutrality and the reasons for the
declaration of war, the role of propaganda in creating
a unified war effort, the limitation of individual
liberties, and Woodrow Wilson’s leadership in the
Treaty of Versailles and the creation of the League of
Nations.
WWI
President Woodrow Wilson
(1913-1921):
• an anti-imperialist
• believed democracy was
essential to a nation’s stability
and prosperity
• believed that the U.S. should
promote democracy in order to
ensure a peaceful world free of
revolution and war
Despite 40+ years of peace,
tensions among European
nations were building in 1914
There were several causes of World War I:
1. The Alliance System
• In the 1860’s the German kingdom of Prussia launched
several wars to unite the many German states into the
German Empire
• Germany became one of the most powerful nations in
the world, and changed European politics
• The Prussians fought and defeated France, and forced
them to give up land along the German border
• Germany signed alliances with Italy and AustriaHungary, creating the Triple Alliance
• Russia and France had a common interest in opposing
Germany and Austria-Hungary
• They signed the Franco-Russian Alliance
German Kingdom of Prussia
2. The Naval Race
• Germany began to build a navy, challenging Great
Britain’s historical dominance of the sea
• By the early 1900’s, an arms race had begun between
Great Britain and Germany
• This arms race increased tensions between Great
Britain and Germany, bringing Britain closer to France
and Russia
• Great Britain refused to sign a formal alliance
• Their new relationship with France and Russia became
known as entente cordiale, or a friendly understanding
• Great Britain, France and Russia became known as the
Triple Entente
3. The Balkans Crisis
• Nationalism was a powerful idea in Europe in the
late 1800’s
• Many people were willing to go to war to expand
their nation at the expense of others
• Self-determination: the idea that people who
belong to a nation should have their own country
and government
• Groups within the region known as the Balkans
began to press for independence from the
Ottoman Empire and the Austria-Hungary Empire
because of nationalism
• The people in this region were known as Slavs
3. The Balkans Crisis
• The first group within the Slavic people to gain
independence were the people of Serbia
• They believed their nation was meant to unite
the Slavs into one nation
• Russia supported Serbia, because they were a
rival of Austria-Hungary
• Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia; an area within
the Balkans region that belonged to the Ottoman
Empire
• The annexation demonstrated to Serbia that
Austria-Hungary had no intention of letting the
Slavic people in its empire become independent
The Balkans
4. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• In June of 1914 the heir to the Austria-Hungary
throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, visited the
Bosnian capital
• A Bosnian revolutionary shot Ferdinand and his
wife to death
• This took place with the knowledge of Serbian
officials, knowing it would start a war with
Austria-Hungary
• On July 28, 1914 Austria-Hungary declared war
on Serbia
• This caused the European alliances to mobilize
4. The Assassination of Archduke Franz
Ferdinand
• Russia mobilized its army, including troops
stationed on the German border
• On August 1, 1914 Germany declared war on
Russia
• Two days later, Germany declared war on
France
At the beginning of the war, Germany needed to
move through Belgium, in order to invade
France
Belgium had been guaranteed neutrality by
Great Britain, so when German troops crossed
the Belgium border Great Britain declared war
on Germany
Those fighting for the Triple Entente-France,
Russia, Great Britain and Italy-were called the
Allies
Those fighting for the Triple Alliance-Germany,
Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire and
Bulgaria-were called the Central Powers
WWI Alliances