MAIN Causes of The Great War

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MAIN Causes of The Great War

• (Only Later Known as WWI)

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M is forMilitarism

• Building up armed forces, preparing for war
• Britain naval supremacy
• Worlds largest and most powerful navy
• Germany competes
• Built up navy
• Established well-disciplined army

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A is forAlliances

• European countries formed unions with each other
• vow to help one another in the event of war
  (alliance system)
• Some alliances public others secret
• Triple Entente (Allied Powers)
• Britain, France, Russia
• Triple Alliance (Central Powers)
• Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire (modern
  day Turkey)

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WWI Alliances
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The World in 1914
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I is forImperialism

• Europeans expanded their land overseas, building
  empires
• Claimed colonies as their own possessions
• Took resources from the colonies
• Sold European products there
• Great Britain
• the sun never set on the British empire
• Germany desired its own place in the sun

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N is forNationalism

• Pride in your country, willing to defend it
• European countries competed with each other for
  the control
• Oversea colonies
• Sea ports
• Austro-Hungarian empire
• Serbs did not want to be part of their empire
• Constant fighting, warfare
• Think present-day Palestine

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The Spark

• A Serbian nationalist assassinated the heir to
  the throne of Austria
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife
• Austria blamed Serbia for plotting against them
• Germany gives a blank check to its ally
  (Austria)
• Russia rushes to its ally (Serbia)
• Germany declares war on Russia August 1, 1914
• France and Britain follow suit within days after
  Belgium (neutral) was invaded

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United Streaming Clip WWI Begins in Europe
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• What is the role of the U.S. at the beginning of
  the war?
• What war tactic greatly affects the U.S.?

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