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Title: CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I


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CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I
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1914
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ITS EFFECTS
  • lasted 4 1/2 years 1914-1918
  • 10 million soldiers killed
  • 10 million civilians died
  • 20 million injured
  • lost lives

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  • NEW WEAPONS OF WAR
  • tanks
  • airplanes
  • flame throwers
  • poison gas
  • machine gun
  • barbed wire

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OLD NATIONS CEASED TO EXIST
  • Austria-Hungary
  • Hapsburg dynasty
  • Ottoman Empire
  • Russia
  • Romanoff dynasty
  • Germany
  • Hohenzollern dynasty

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Hohenzollerns of Prussia
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Hapsburgs of Austria
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Romanovs of Russia
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NEW COUNTRIES CREATED
  • Poland
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Hungary
  • Yugoslavia
  • Romania

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TYRANNY FROM WWI
  • Fascism in Italy (Mussolini)
  • Nazis in Germany (Hitler)
  • Communism in Soviet Union (Stalin)

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commies
Nazis
fascists
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  • No WWI-------NoWWII
  • No nukes?
  • No Cold War?
  • WWI turning point in World History
  • Europe no longer dominates the world

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CAUSES OF WWI
  • 1. competition for overseas colonies
  • Scramble for Africa and Asia
  • 2. Alsace-Lorraine
  • Franco-Prussian War
  • 3. logical outcome of European history
  • Congress of Vienna

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  • 4. English distrust and hate the Germans
  • a. German navy starts to rival Britain
  • b. arms race (Krupps)
  • 5. nationalism
  • 6. weak leaders
  • Czar Nicolas II
  • Kaiser Wilhelm
  • Emperor Franz Joseph

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  • 7. ALLIANCE SYSTEMS OF 1907
  • Triple Alliance- Germany, Austria-Hungary,Italy,
    Ottoman Empire
  • Triple Entente- France, Russia, England

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The spark that starts the war
  • Black Hand
  • Lt. Colonel Dimitrijevic
  • Gavrilo Princip
  • Franz Ferdinand
  • Sophie
  • Sarajevo
  • June 28, 1914

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Archduke and wife
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The spark
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  • June 28
  • July 28- Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
  • July 29 Russia mobilizes troops
  • Pan-Slavinism

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Russia
Germany
Aust.-Hun
Serbia
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  • August 1 France mobilizes against Germany
  • Von Schlieffen Plan

step one
step two
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  • August 2 Germany enters Belgium
  • bloody Belgium
  • August 4 England enters the war
  • WWI had begun

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