CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I World War I

CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I World War I

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1) Militarism • The belief that a nation needs a large military force is called __militarism____. • In the decades before the war, the major powers built up their armies and navies. France Britain Russia Germany 1910 -1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures 10% 13% 39% 73%

2) Alliances • In 1914, a tangled network of competing alliances bound European nations together. • An __alliance_____ is a group of nations that promise to protect one another. • An attack on one nation forced all its allies to come to its aid. Any small conflict could become a larger _conflict____.

ALLIANCES Triple Entente: Triple Alliance: Great Britain Germany France Russia Austria-Hungary Italy

3) Imperialism • Britain, France, Italy, and Germany competed for _colonies (markets, trading, resources)______ in Africa and Asia. • However, since Germany had fewer colonies than Britain and France, Germany felt it deserved more colonies to provide it with resource and buy it goods.

4) Nationalism • Europeans were very nationalistic, meaning that they had strong feelings of _nationalism_______, loyalty, and protectiveness toward their own country. • They wanted to prove their nation was the best! They placed their countries’ interests above all other concerns. • In addition, some ethnic groups hoped to form their own separate nations and were willing to fight for such a cause.

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SPARK: ASSASSINATION OF THE ARCHDUKE • A single action, the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, started _the Great War (WW 1)____. • However there were many underlying causes: M. A. I. N.

NEW ALLIANCES When WWI, started in 1914, European nations divided into two, new opposing alliances. became the Allied Powers. The Triple Entente _The Triple Alliance became the Central Powers. ____ ◆ Austria-Hungary ◆ Serbia ◆ Germany ◆ Russia ◆ The Ottoman Empire ◆ France ◆ Bulgaria ◆ Great Britain _____________________ ◆ Italy ◆ And seven other smaller countries FYI: Italy left the Central Powers in 1915 Russia leaves in 1917; the U. S. A. joins in 1917.

1)What were the underlying causes of World War I? 1)How did the network of alliances make a small event dangerous?