Chapter 11-1 Notes
The Powder Keg
Ignites
Standard 10.5.1
Standard 10.5.1
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Analyze the arguments for entering into
war presented by leaders from all sides
of the Great War and the role of
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political and economic rivalries
ethnic and ideological conflicts
domestic discontent and disorder
propaganda and nationalism in mobilizing
the civilian population in support of "total
war."
Vocabulary
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Ultimatum
Mobilize
Neutrality
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Schlieffen Plan
Stalemate
Trench Warfare
• Austria & Serbia are bitter enemies
• Russia is committed to support Serb resistance to
Austria
• Germany is committed to support Austrian attempts
to dominate Serbia
Granny
• How has the alliance system dictated the
involvement of World War I?
Europe on Eve of WWI
The
Balkans
The Powder Keg Explodes
• On June 28,1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand
and his wife Sophie were assassinated
– Gavrilo Princip
• Black Hands
• On July 23, 1914 Austria-Hungary gave
Serbia an ultimatum
• On July 28, 1914 Austria-Hungary declared
war on Serbia
All For You Sophia Lyrics
Bang bang, Gavrilo Princip
Bang bang, shoot me Gavrilo
Bang bang, the first six are for you
Bang bang, the seventh is for me
Bang bang, Gavrilo Princip
Bang bang, Europe's going to weep
All for you, all for you, all for you, Sophia (x4)
Bang bang, history's complete
Bang bang, shoot me Gavrilo
Bang bang, the first six are for you
Bang bang, the seventh is for me
Bang bang, Gavrilo Princip
Bang bang, shoot me Gavrilo
All for you, all for you, all for you, Sophia (x4)
The Black Hand holds the gun
The devil takes his run
Urban, take the Appel Quay
It's June the twenty-eighth
The seventh was for me
Stalemate on the Western Front
• Schlieffen Plan
– Designed to avoid a two front war
– Destroy France 1st
• German forces sought Paris by going through
Belgium
– Belgians resisted more than Germans assumed
• British/French and German troops began to dig
trenches
– Hence Trench Warfare
– Protect armies from enemy fire
– Stalemate
Sister
• Discuss why the Schlieffen Plan failed?
Mom
• What is trench warfare?
• What is stalemate?
How Wars Begin
Competition
Conflict
WAR
Dad
Powder Keg Assignment
• Draw this picture
• Inside the keg Label the
4 M.A.I.N. causes of
WWI.
• Label the fuse with the
event that started WWI.
• In your own words
explain what the powder
keg and fuse represent