World War I The Powder Keg

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World War IThe Powder Keg
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1800s Rivalries

• Result of the Industrial Revolution
• Competition for new markets and economic growth
• Everyone wants Global Empires Colonization -
  Imperialism

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Whats the Deal with Britain?

• Great Britain is an Island
• SoHow do they get goods from place to place?
• What are they
• so afraid of?

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Tell me what you want!

• France and Germany want Morocco
• Germany wants the Ottoman Empire
• Austria-Hungary
• wants access to the
• Balkans via Aegean Sea
• Russia wants Bosporus
• and Dardanelles
• ?Black Sea why
• do they need it?

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Tension Builds

• Germany builds Berlin Baghdad Railroad
• Britain and Russia are angry
• India and Suez canal are effected
• France wants revenge for Alsace-Lorraine
• Lost during the Franco Prussian War 1870-1871

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Nationalism

• Belief that your country is better than other
  countries
• Unified Germany
• Popular in France
• PanSlavism
• Spread Slavic culture around the world
• Want their own Slavic State
• Scary to non-Slavs

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Uh-oh

• 1908 Austria-Hungary
• Annexed Bosnia-Hertzegovina
• Serbs call Russia for help
• Russia doesnt help ? they cut a deal with A-H
  instead to use the Dadanelles

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Militarism

• Building up of military forces and supplies
• Countries compared militaries with each other
• Increased military spending
• Universal military training

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Picking Teams - Alliances
3 Emperors League 1873 -Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia -Goal Isolate France -Didnt last Triple Alliance 1882 -Austria-Hungary, Italy, Germany -Italy is mad at France for Tunis -Agree one goes to war all go to war Russia and France Alliance 1890 -1894 make it official -1904 Great Britain joins in Triple Entent 1907
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The Match is litBalkans June 28, 1914

• Arch Duke Francis Ferdinan of A-H is assassinated
  by a Serbian terrorist group Black Hand
• A-H holds all the Serbs responsible ? Germanys
  influence
• Germany gave A-H the ok and backing to fight
  Serbia July 23 1914 ultimatum is issued July
  28 War is declared