The Spark in the Powder keg The Assassination

“The Spark in the Powder keg” The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand the Legacy of World war I

The underlying causes: MANIA!!! • M- Militarism. Countries glorifying and spending money on their military. – Eg. 1890 Germany was the strongest national army – Kaiser Wilhelm II wanted to compete with United Kingdom for sea power, so a navy race began. Japan, the US, France and Italy also competed for supreme navies

British Militarism

German Militarism

Costa Rica Militarism Ha!! Trick question. They don’t have a standing army

A-Alliances-groups of friends • There were two main alliances • The Triple Entente-France Britain Russia • The Triple Alliance-Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy (later joined by the Ottoman empire)

Nationalism- Pride in your country • Examples: ethnic groups wanted their own countries…. Bosnia, Serbia, but their governments wouldn’t allow it

Imperialism-empire building • Examples: Africa was divided up at the Berlin Conference in 1884 -85 into spheres of influence to avoid European powers from fighting. Africa had no say as a continent

Things were tense in the Balkans Things are still tense in the Balkans….

Serbian nationals were already mad at Austria-Hungary • Bosnia was taken over by AH and Serbia was still part of their empire. • Archduke franz Ferdinand announces a tour with his wife of Bosnia’s capital Sarajevo • A secret society then hatches a plan “The Black Hand”

The Black Hand • Quasi Serbian organization, not official. When the plan was announced • 6 hand grenades, 4 new browning automatic pistols money, , suicide pills, and knowledge of secret tunnels

The assassination of Franz-Ferdinand Sophie set off a rapid chain of events: Austria-Hungary, like many in countries around the world, blamed the Serbian government for the attack and hoped to use the incident as justification for settling the question of Slav nationalism once and for all. As Russia supported Serbia, an Austro -Hungarian declaration of war was delayed until its leaders received assurances from German leader Kaiser Wilhelm that Germany would support their cause in the event of a Russian intervention–which would likely involve Russia's ally, France, and possibly Britain as well. On July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and the tenuous peace between Europe's great powers collapsed. Within a week, Russia, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Serbia had lined up against Austria-Hungary and Germany, and World War I had begun.