CAUSES OF

WORLD WAR ONE IMPERIALISM, ALLIANCE SYSTEM, NATIONALISM,

MILITARISM

IMPERIALISM•THE DIRECT TAKEOVER OF A WEAKER NATION OR

TERRITORY BY A STRONGER NATION

•THE UNITED STATES PRACTICED IMPERIALISM WITH CUBA, HAWAII, PHILIPPINES, PUERTO RICO, AND THE CREATION OF THE PANAMA CANAL.

•EUROPEAN COUNTRIES CONQUERED NATIONS IN AFRICA WITHOUT RESISTANCE (GERMANY COMPETED AGAINST FRANCE AND GERMANY)

ALLIANCE SYSTEM

•AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY BY A SERBIAN EXTREMIST, RUSSIA, GERMANY, AND OTHER WORLD POWERS WENT TO WAR TO SUPPORT THEIR ALLIES.

•THE UNITED STATES JOINED THE SIDE OF THE ALLIED POWERS (TRIPLE ENTENTE) VERSUS THE CENTRAL POWERS (TRIPLE ALLIANCE) WHEN THEY DECIDED TO GO AGAINST THEIR ISOLATIONISM PHILOSOPHY

NATIONALISM

•THE DEEP DEVOTION OR PRIDE TO ONES COUNTRY, HEIGHTENED DURING WARTIME

•LED BY PROPAGANDA

•STRONG SUPPORTER OF THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS IN YOUR COUNTRY

MILITARISM• AN “ARMS RACE” TO SEE WHO COULD BUILD UP

THEIR MILITARY THE QUICKEST…NAVY AND GROUND

• NON-ALLIES SAW MILITARISM AS A THREAT TO THEIR SAFETY

• THE MILITARY RECEIVES SUPPORT FROM THE COUNTRIES GOVERNMENT

• GROWTH OF NATIONALISM/IMPERIALISM RISES

MILITARY BUDGETS

• GERMANY AND BRITAIN RACE TO BUILD BEST SEA

FLEET – FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, AND U.S. SOON FOLLOW

WORLD WAR ONE BEGINS• AUSTRIA-HUNGARY DECLARES WAR ON SERBIA AFTER THE ASSASSINATION

OF AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND IN SARAJEVO

• RUSSIA GOT INVOLVED TO DEFEND SERBIA

• GERMANY, SEEING RUSSIA MOBILIZE, DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA

• FRANCE THEN DECLARES WAR AGAINST GERMANY AND AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

• GERMANY ATTACKS FRANCE THROUGH BELGIUM, DRAWING GREAT BRITAIN INTO WAR WITH GERMANY

• THE UNITED STATES HAD AN ISOLATIONISM APPROACH AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR

Chaos!!!

WHO HAS AN ADVANTAGE???• THE TRIPLE ENTENTE, LATER BECAME THE “ALLIES” CONSISTED OF FRANCE, GREAT BRITAIN, AND RUSSIA

• THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE CONSISTED OF GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, AND ITALY (ITALY WOULD JOIN THE ALLIES LATER ON IN THE WAR. LATER CALLED THE “CENTRAL POWERS”

• ALLIES: AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, BRITISH COLONIES, CANADA, FRANCE, FRENCH AFRICAN COLONIES, GREAT BRITAIN, GREECE, INDIA, ITALY, JAPAN, MONTENEGRO, NEW ZEALAND, PORTUGAL, ROMANIA, RUSSIA, SERBIA, SOUTH AFRICA, U.S.A (ALL OF THESE COUNTRIES JOINED ON THE SIDE OF THE ALLIES AT VARIOUS TIMES THROUGHOUT THE WAR)

• CENTRAL POWERS: AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, BULGARIA, GERMANY, OTTOMAN EMPIRE

TRENCH

WARFARE • TRENCH WARFARE WAS THE ULTIMATE STALEMATE

• EACH SIDE HAD DUG AT LEAST 12,000 MILES OF TRENCHES

• THE ALLIES USED 4 TYPES OF TRENCHES- FRONT LINE, SUPPORT, RESERVE, COMMUNICATION

• THE GERMANS HAD A MUCH HIGHER QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE TRENCHES THAN THE ALLIES

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