hist WW1

Major causes

1) Extreme Nationalism

2) Economic and colonial Competition

3) Armament Race

4) Alliance System

5) Immediate cause : the Sarajevo Incident

what made European power believe that Germany was a threat?

germany emerged as europen power after 1871. adopted an expansionist foreign policy called WORLD POLITICS

Why France wanna take revenge on Germany ?

As France was defeated in Franco-Prussian War. also Germany tried to isolate France

After losing its control of Central Europe, why did their relations worsened?

Austria Hungary wanna expand in the Balkans in Southeastern Europe. Russia supported the expansion of Serbia also Slavic nation , in the Balkans.

late 19 and 20 centuries, the European powers competed for overseas colonies to get markets and resources, as a result what happened?

1) the Tunisian Incident 1881 ( France and Italy )

2) the Fashoda Incident 1898 ( France and Britain )

3) the Moroccan Crises 1905-06, 1911 ( France and Germany )

the Europan powers competed armies and armaments.

• Conscription was introduced to built up large armies, new and powerful weapons were developed

• Britain and Germany were chief rivals in the competition to built dreadnoughts (powerful battleships of the time

• armaments made Europeans more warlike

• supported was to solv problems

how to isolate France?

1)Germany formed the Triple Alliance with Austria Hungary and Italy in 1882 ( start of alliance system in Europe)

2)Russia, Britain and France formed Triple Entente 1907 

-europe was divided into 2 rival camps

• would not give away easily when the had quarrels with other countries

• involve more powers and turning  to a general war

what did extreme nationalism support?

territorial expansion to gain national glory and the use of force to solve conflicts

examples:

• France revenge against Germany

• Pan-Germanism

• Pan-Slavism 

• Greater Serbia

• Austria-Hungary expansion into Balkans

led to many crises in Africa and Balkans —> worsened international relations

Pre-war conflicts

The First Moroccan Crisis 1905-06

The Bosnian Crisis 1908

The Second Moroccan Crisis 1911

The First Balkan War 1912

The Second Balkan War 1913

immediate cause of the first world war

June 28, 1914. Princip, a Bosnian student who was associate with an anti-Austrian society in Serbia assasinated Archduke Ferdinand, the heir to Austrian throne in Sarajevo 

why did Ausria Hungary declared war to serbita on July 28

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course

• 1914 Russia started mobilization after AH declared war on Serbia ,

Germany declared war on Russia and France

Entry of France and Britain after Germany invaded Belgium

formed Central Powers

formed Allied Powers

• 1915 Germany start the unrestricted submarine warfare against Britain 

• German submarine sank Lusitania

• 1916 Entry of Italy

• 1917 Entry of the united states after Germany asked Mexico to form alliance

• 1918 US President Wilson issued the Fourteen Points

Russia withdraw from war after Lenin set up a communist government

the central powers surrendered to the Allied Powers in 1918

central powers

Germany

Austria-Hungary

Turkey aka Ottoman Empire

Bulgaria

allied powers

Britain

USA

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