CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I

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CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I
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1914
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ITS EFFECTS

• lasted 4 1/2 years 1914-1918
• 10 million soldiers killed
• 10 million civilians died
• 20 million injured
• lost lives

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• NEW WEAPONS OF WAR
• tanks
• airplanes
• flame throwers
• poison gas
• machine gun
• barbed wire

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OLD NATIONS CEASED TO EXIST

• Austria-Hungary
• Hapsburg dynasty
• Ottoman Empire
• Russia
• Romanoff dynasty
• Germany
• Hohenzollern dynasty

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Hohenzollerns of Prussia
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Hapsburgs of Austria
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Romanovs of Russia
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NEW COUNTRIES CREATED

• Poland
• Czechoslovakia
• Hungary
• Yugoslavia
• Romania

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TYRANNY FROM WWI

• Fascism in Italy (Mussolini)
• Nazis in Germany (Hitler)
• Communism in Soviet Union (Stalin)

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commies
Nazis
fascists
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• No WWI-------NoWWII
• No nukes?
• No Cold War?
• WWI turning point in World History
• Europe no longer dominates the world

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CAUSES OF WWI

• 1. competition for overseas colonies
• Scramble for Africa and Asia
• 2. Alsace-Lorraine
• Franco-Prussian War
• 3. logical outcome of European history
• Congress of Vienna

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• 4. English distrust and hate the Germans
• a. German navy starts to rival Britain
• b. arms race (Krupps)
• 5. nationalism
• 6. weak leaders
• Czar Nicolas II
• Kaiser Wilhelm
• Emperor Franz Joseph

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• 7. ALLIANCE SYSTEMS OF 1907
• Triple Alliance- Germany, Austria-Hungary,Italy,
  Ottoman Empire
• Triple Entente- France, Russia, England

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The spark that starts the war

• Black Hand
• Lt. Colonel Dimitrijevic
• Gavrilo Princip
• Franz Ferdinand
• Sophie
• Sarajevo
• June 28, 1914

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Archduke and wife
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The spark
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• June 28
• July 28- Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
• July 29 Russia mobilizes troops
• Pan-Slavinism

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Russia
Germany
Aust.-Hun
Serbia
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• August 1 France mobilizes against Germany
• Von Schlieffen Plan

step one
step two
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• August 2 Germany enters Belgium
• bloody Belgium
• August 4 England enters the war
• WWI had begun

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