road to ww1 top 10

nationalism + imperialism

• tension, anticipation, rivalry, unease

• attitudes about how to preserve power

• competition for land abroad

• popaganda contributed to nationalist fervor

• some ethnic groups still under imperial control

  • slavic minorities with the balkans + austria-hungary

  • irish with great britain

  • poles with russia

alliances

• to prevent/manage wars

• triple alliance

  • germany, italy, austria-hungary

• triple entente

  • great britain, france, russia

princip/black hand

• serbian terrorist assassination of archduke ferdinand

black check

• germany agrees to fully back austria-hungary in any scenario (after princip)

mobilization + militarism

• raising armies (conscription)

• russia mobilization = act of war, so germany declares war on russia in response

schlieffen plan

• 2 front war germany vs france + russia (invade france first via belgium)

industrial revolution effects

• battleships, iron, steel, poison gas, tanks, guns

“sick man of europe”/eastern question

• young turks/balkans/suez canal

• instability of the ottoman empire: what do we do with it?

germany’s rise

• bismarck + realpolitik (pragmatic compromise) + “iron and blood”

napoleon

• congress of vienna