CHAPTER 27 LESSON 1 NOTES

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CHAPTER 27 LESSON 1 NOTES THE FUNDAMENTAL OR
MAIN CAUSES FOR THE GREAT WAR (FROM JULY 28,
1914 TO NOVEMBER 11, 1918)
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• a. to glorify or romanticize the idea of war
• b. the desire to demonstrate ones own armed
  strength
• c. to prove the theory of Charles Darwin
  survival of the
• fittest
• d. armament plants (factories) are
• built at
  
• record speed

I. Militarism
e. military and naval competition in an
industrialized arms race
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Alliances

• any combination of countries joining
  together, even if temporarily, for a
• common cause
• Examples
• the Triple Alliance formed by Germanys
  chancellor
• Bismarck along with
• Austria-Hungary, and
• Italy with the common goal of isolating
• France later Germany and the
• Dual Monarchy will be joined by the
• Ottoman Empire and
• Bulgaria to form WWIs warring side
  known as the
• Central Powers

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b. to counter the Triple Alliance and to better
balance Europes power, Britain,
France, and Russia formed the Triple
Entente this alliance / friendly
agreement became the basis for the other
warring side known as the Allied Powers.
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II. Alliances
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• The practice by which a stronger country
  dominates a
• weaker nation forcing it to become its
  colony to provide the dominant country with
  
  
• raw materials and markets
• the vast trading empire of
• Britain from
• Africa to
• India to
• S.E. Asia
• c. rapid industrialization by
• Germany threatens British interests

III. Imperialism
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Cecil Rhodes supporter of British imperialism
in Africa but Britain had the least to gain in
fighting a world war
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IV. Nationalism
Bismarck leads the two lads (Alsace Lorraine)
into the German Empire 1871
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• to exhibit loyalty and devotion to ones own
• homeland, customs, and culture
• b. Serbias desire to lead the
• Slavs on the Balkan Peninsula but it is
  already under the control of the
• Hapsburg Empire
• c. the policy practiced by Russia called
• Pan-Slavism that would support Serbia, if
  threatened
• d. France is determined to recover its people
  coal / iron in the region called
• Alsace-Lorraine still controlled by Germany
  since the
• Franco-Prussian War in 1870

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Ruthlessness means German unity
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IMMEDIATE CAUSE FOR THE GREAT WAR OF 1914

• 1908 Austria-Hungary annexes the
• Balkan provinces,
• Bosnia and Herzegovina, angering the
• Slavs in Serbia

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the Balkan Peninsula becomes the powder keg of
Europe
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• The spark that lights the powder keg - heir
  to Austrian throne, archduke Francis Ferdinand,

visiting Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, on a
goodwill tour on June 28, 1914, is assassinated
by Gavrilo Princip,
a Black Hand terrorist member from Serbia
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Black hand member, Gavrilo Princip, upon his
arrest
Hapsburg heir Francis Ferdinand and wife Sophie
on good will tour in Sarajevo, Bosnia moments
before their assassination
G. P.
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• Austria issues a 48-hour (final set of
  demands)
• ultimatum to Serbia
• Serbia refuses to meet some terms of ultimatum
• The 1st declaration of war
• on July 28, 1914 encouraged by
• Triple Alliance ally, Kaiser
• Wilhelm II Kaiser Bill of Germany, to punish
  the Slavs of Serbia, Austria declares war on
• Serbia to begin the Great War

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Cousins Czar Nicholas II, King George V, Kaiser
Wilhelm II
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CHAIN OF EVENTS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE 1ST
DECLARATION OF WAR

• Russias czar, Nicholas II,
• in support of Serbian Slavs, (prepares
  soldiers for war)
• mobilizes his troops along the
  Austrian-German border
• Germany declares war on Russia
• Triple Entente member, Russia asks its ally,
• France, for support so
• Germany declares war on
• France France declares war on
• Germany

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• Germanys Schlieffen Plan gt

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• to attack Paris with lightning speed to
  avoid
• fighting a two-front war
• (France on the west /
• Russia on the east) gt quickest attack is
  through
• neutral Belgium to reach Paris
• Belgium forbids Germany to cross its border
  gt
• Germany crosses border anyway gt
• Belgium declares war on Germany
• Britain, to protect its proximity to
• Belgium, declares war on Germany

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Triple Entente
Triple Alliance
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WW IS WARRING SIDES

• from the TRIPLE
• Alliance comes the
• Central Powers
• Germany and
• Austria-Hungary a few months later, the
• Ottoman Empire and
• Bulgaria join the Central Powers

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• from the TRIPLE
• Entente comes the
• Allied Powers
• Britain,
• France,
• Russia joined by
• Italy (hoping to gain Austrian lands after
• the Great War is over, the Italians choose to
  fight
• with the Allies instead of the Central
  Powers,
• betraying their commitment to the Triple
• Alliance)
• others to join the Allies
• Serbia
• Belgium
• Japan and the
• United States but not until 1917