causes of World War I

1. CHAPTER
13 The Great War, 1914–1918
Chapter Overview
1 Causes of War
2 War
3 Effects of War
4 Making Peace

2. Part 1:Causes of War
• Your goal:
Understand what caused World War I.

3. The Stage Is Set for War
Some Europeans believed that progress
had made war a thing of the past.
Not me.
Waging war is
SO over. People sit
Who would do down and
that anymore? talk with
their
enemies
now.
It’s much
less messy.

4. Gradual developments would
ultimately help propel the continent
into war.
Nationalism
Imperialis
m
Militarism

5. All of these developments influence a nation’s foreign
policy.
Foreign Policy is what you want from
another country and what you are willing to
do to get it.

6. Sense of what makes a German a German, a
Russian a Russian, etc.
Loyalty to your country (not the leader)
Competition
Nationalism
Unification
Self-rule
Pride

7. How could nationalism lead a country to
war against another country?

8. Always be ready for war
Glorify military power
Get more soldiers
Get more guns
Militarism

9. How could militarism lead a country to
war against another country?

10. Expand from country to
empire.
Buy and sell with your
empire.
Take control of weaker
countries. Imperialis
m
Dominate the social, political
and economic life of those

11. Imperialis
m
COMPETITION
•For resources
•For power
•For pride

12. How could imperialism lead a country to
war against another country?

13. 1871
Alliances
Bismarck is ready for peace.
He is afraid that France will want
revenge for losing the Franco-
Prussian war.
His method changes from
WAR to ALLIANCE.

14. Bismarck forms
Alliances
alliances with
everyone but
France.
If France goes to
war, Germany will be
protected.

15. Triple Alliance
Alliances
•Germany
•Austria-Hungary
•Italy (later)
Another Alliance
•Germany
•Russia

17. Hmph. I can do it
1890 myself!
•Stubborn German
Kaiser Wilhelm II fires
Bismarck.
•Germany’s treaty with Russia expires.
•Effect: Russia signs Treaty with France
•Wilhelm II Builds massive Navy. (militarism)
•Effect: Nervous Britain signs treaty with
France.

18. World War I
The Short Version
1. Austria-Hungary declared war on
Serbia
2. Russia and other countries supported
Serbia. (The Allies)
3. Germany and other countries
supported Austria-Hungary. (The
Central Powers)
4. The Central Powers lost.
5. Germany was blamed for the whole

19. Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Important guy from Austria-Hungary
• July 1914- visiting Sarajevo with his
wife.
– Wants to show the citizens that Austria- Don’t
Hungary rules them. take
note
– Asserting Hapsburg authority. s.
Just
listen
.

20. Franz Ferdinand singer

21. Archduke Franz Ferdinand
From Austria-Hungary
July 1914
Visiting Sarajevo in Serbia

23. Stop. Think.
What about nationalism?
• What kind of problems can you see with
Austria-Hungary ruling over these
different ethnic populations?
Don’t
take
note
s.
Just
listen
.

25. The Assassination
• Black Hand members
– Serbian nationalists
– Ready to assassinate Franz Ferdinand
• Assassin #1 throws a bomb.
– Fails
• Assassin #2 shoots Franz Ferdinand
– Success

26. HOME
CHAPTER
13 The Great War, 1914–1918
Time Line of WWI
1914 (June) Archduke Franz 1916 (Feb.) French and 1918 (Nov.) Allies defeat
Ferdinand assassinated. (July) German battle at Central Powers; war
Austria declares war on Serbia; World Verdun. ends.
War I begins.
1914 1918
1915 (Jan.) Trench warfare 1917 (April) United
underway on Western Front. States enters war.

27. Alliance map 1914

28. HOME
1 The Stage
Is Set for War
Review events leading to war.
1. Nationalism unifies countries.
2. Nationalism leads to commercial and
territorial rivalries.
3. Triple Alliance joins Central Powers
4. Triple Entente joins Allies
5. An assassination causes war to break
out.

29. Alliance map 1914 detail

30. 1 The Stage
Is Set for War
MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW
In Europe, military Ethnic conflict in the
buildup, nationalistic region, helped start WWI
feelings, and rival continued to erupt in the
alliances set the 1990s.
stage for a
continental war.

31. Humoristische

32. Nord-See

33. Hark Hark The Dogs Do Bark

34. Satyrische

35. National Dress

36. HOME
1 The Stage
Is Set for War
Section 1 Assessment
1. Look at the graphic to help organize your
thoughts. List the major events that led to World
War I.
1882 1890s 1908
Triple Alliance European Austria annexed
formed. arms race Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
1890 1907 1914
German foreign Triple Entente Archduke Franz
policy changed. formed. Ferdinand and wife
killed.

37. BOO
Something was bound to happen…
M!
Assassination
of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand
June 28, 1914
•Militarism
militarism
•Nationalism
Nationalism
imperialism
•Imperialism

38. HOME
1 The Stage
Is Set for War
Section 1 Assessment
2. Why might the “machinery of war,” set in
motion by the assassination of Archduke
Ferdinand, have been difficult to stop? THINK ABOUT
• nationalism
• militarism
• the alliance system
ANSWER
Possible • Intense nationalism prompted nations to compete
Responses: for superiority in all areas.
• Militarism had led to the establishment of large
armies, as well as to the glorification of military
might.
• The alliance system required its members to End of Section 1

39. Part 2: War
• Your goal:
Understand the strategies and actions of
World War I.