Nationalism

How did Nationalism create feelings of supremacy?

Many nationalists also became blind to the faults of their own nation. In matters of foreign affairs or global competition, they were convinced that their country was fair, righteous and beyond fault

How did Nationalism create critisicm of other nations?

In contrast, nationalists criticised rival nations to the point of demonization, caricaturing them as aggressive, scheming, deceitful, backward or uncivilised.

How did press reports increase nationalism?

Nationalist press reports convinced many readers the interests of their country were being threatened by the plotting, scheming and hungry imperialism of its rivals

What did Nationalism, cause the British to believe about their naval power?

believed their naval power, coupled with the size and resources of the British Empire, would give them the upper hand in any war

What did Nationalism, cause the Germans to believe about their military power?

It created great confidence in the Schlieffen Plan, a pre-emptive military strategy for defeating France before Russia could mobilise to support her. 

What did Nationalism, cause the Russians to believe about their military power?

 Tsar Nicholas II believed his empire was sustained by God and protected by a massive standing army of 1.5 million men

What did Nationalism, cause the French to believe about their military power?

they had faith in the country’s heavy industry, which had expanded rapidly in the late 1800s. Paris also played great stock in its defences, particularly a wall of concrete barriers and fortresses running the length of its eastern border. 

How did nationalism cause WW1?

Nationalist and militarist rhetoric assured Europeans that if war did erupt, their nation would emerge as the victor. 

What war increased German Anti-British sentiment?

Anti-British sentiment intensified during the Boer War of 1899-1902, Britain’s war against farmer-settlers for control of South Africa.

What is an example of the German Anti-british sentiment?

Ernst Lissauer’s 1914 ‘Song of Hate for England’

Why did the Kaiser not like Germany?

The Kaiser envied Britain’s vast empire, commercial enterprise and naval power – but he thought the British avaricious and hypocritical

To German nationalists who was their biggest obstacle to colonisation?

Britain

What was another type of nationalism gaining traction?

he right of ethnic groups to independence, autonomy and self-government. 

What is Pan-Slavism?

the belief that the Slavic peoples of eastern Europe should have their own nation, was a powerful force in the region.

What was Pan-Slavism particularly opposed to?

the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its control and influence over the region.

What was the Black Hand’

A nationalist group filled with young serbs who were aggravated by Vienna’s annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina

What was the black hands aim?

These groups hoped to drive Austria-Hungary from the Balkans

What did the Pan-slavism nationalism inspire?

the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914

Where did German nationalism emerge from?

the unification of Germany in 1871

What did Geman nationalism want?

German imperial expansion and resentful of the British and their empire.