Long-Term Causes of The Great War

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Long-Term Causes of The Great War

• UNDERLYING FORCES WHICH WERE PUSHING EUROPE INTO
  WAR

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NATIONALISM
The feeling that a specific nation, language or
culture is superior to all others.

• Guided by National
• Self-Interest

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IMPERIALISM

• Rivalry in Europe was increasing through
  Imperialism
• competing for new colonies
• Great Britain, Germany and France needed foreign
  markets after the increase in manufacturing
  caused by the Industrial Revolution.
• countries competed for economic expansion in
  Africa

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MILITARISM (ARMS RACE) Development of armed
forces and their use as a tool for diplomacy.

• Diplomacy
• A policy of aggressive military preparedness was
  called militarism.
• Germany Lead the Arms Race
• European Nations rapidly built-up arms to keep up
  with Germany
• Armies Navies greatly expanded

• competition led to tension and the creation of
  vast armies

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ARMS BUILD-UP

• 1870 1914 FRANCE GERMANY
• Standing Armies DOUBLED IN SIZE

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• Britain and Germanys Navy
• Continued to grow
• Britains goal Navy should be 2 ½ times more
  powerful than other navy

• 1912 1913 Germany increased the size of its
  army by 20 and built a navy that rivaled
  Britains, which was the most powerful navy in
  the world.

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ALLIANCE SYSTEMIn order to feel safe (there was
a pretty fair degree of paranoia as you can
imagine) nations began to sign secret treaties
forming alliances and Europe was divided into an
armed camp.
What is an alliance?

• European nations signed treaties that committed
  them to support one another if they were
  attacked.

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Alliances pulled Europeans into a Great War

• Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy and
  Austria- Hungary in 1882.
• Triple Entente united Britain, France and Russia.

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ALLIED POWERS

• Great Britain, France, Russia
• 1915 Italy
• 1917 United States
• (Russia had a separate treaty with Serbia)

• CENTRAL POWERS
• Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria,
  Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

Italy dropped out in 1915
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THE POWDER KEGTHE SPARK

• June 28, 1914 Assassination
• Austria-Hungarys Archduke Franz Ferdinand his
  wife Sofia are Assassinated
• Assassinator 19 year old Serbian Nationalist
• Member of the Black Hand Gavrilo Princip

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BEGINS
THE GREAT WAR
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DOMINO EFFECT ASSASSINATION

• ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND assassinated
• AUSTRIA HUNGARY
• A-H 7/28/14 Declared War
• AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
• GERMANY
• Germany went through
• Germany

• by NATIONALISTS PRINCIP
• SERBIAN
• SERBIA
• RUSSIA declared war
• Declared war on RUSSIA
• FRANCE came to the defense of Russia
• BELGIUM to get to France
• BRITAIN declared war on

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THE GREAT WAR July 28, 1914

• MAIN LONG-TERM CAUSES
• M ILITARISM
• A LLIANCE SYSTEM
• I MPERIALISM
• N ATIONALISM
• Event that sparked the war
• Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

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All Quiet on the Western Front