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• World War I has begun. You are the leader of a
  European country and must decide what to do. Your
  nation is one of several that have agreed to
  support each other in the event of war. Some of
  your allies already have joined the fight. You
  oppose the thought of war and fear that joining
  will lead to even more lives lost. Yet, you
  believe in being loyal to your allies.

You also worry that your rivals want to conquer
all of Europeand if you dont join the war now,
your country may end up having to defend itself
all alone.
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1. Should you always support a friend, no matter
   what he or she does?
2. What might be the long-term consequences of
   refusing to help an ally?

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• Unit Standard SSWH 16 Understand the long-term
  causes of World War I and its global impact.
• Objectives Identify the political and military
  forces at work in Europe in the late 1800s.
  Which countries made up the Triple Alliance and
  the Triple Entente. Summarize the events that
  set World War I in motion.
• EQ How did military buildup, nationalistic
  feelings, and rival alliances set the stage for a
  continental war?

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Read textbook pages 841 843.

• Identify the MAIN causes of World War I.
• Identify the members of the Triple Alliance and
  the Triple Entente.

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World War I
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The MAIN Causes of World War I

• Militarism
• Alliances
• Imperialism
• Nationalism

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Militarism

• Militarism - A policy of glorifying military
  power and keeping a standing army always prepared
  for war.

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Alliances

• Alliances - close associations of nations or
  other groups, formed to advance common interests
  or causes. Specifically, in World War I, a
  series of defense agreements involving two or
  more countries.

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Imperialism

• Imperialism A policy in which a strong nation
  seeks to dominate other countries politically,
  economically, or socially.

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Nationalism

• Nationalism a belief that people should be
  loyal mainly to their nation - that is to the
  people with whom they share a culture and a
  history rather than to a king or an empire.

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Boundaries

• War in Europe is not a new thing. Often they had
  fought over lands back and forth.
• Alsace-Lorraine two French provinces lost to
  Germany as a result of earlier war.
• Bosnia-Herzogovina Austria absorbed these as a
  result of the Balkan Wars.
• Austria-Hungary transfer so often that this
  region had three alphabets, three religions and
  eleven or more language groups.

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Nationalism

• Nationalism a deep devotion to ones country.
• The rise in nationalism caused intense
  competition amoung nations, each seeking to
  overpower the other.

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Tangled Alliances

• Bismarck (the German Chancellor) forged many
  alliances between 1864 and 1871 primarily to
  isolate France, whom he considered Germanys
  greatest threat.
• He formed an alliance with Austria-Hungary and
  then later with Italy, thus forming the Triple
  Alliance. He added an alliance with Russia to
  remove another possible ally from France.

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• When Wilhelm II became Kaiser, he forced Bismarck
  to resign.
• In addition he allowed some of the alliances
  (especially the one with Russia) to lapse and
  began a tremendous military build up.

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• In response to Kaiser Wilhelms alliances and
  military buildup, England and France formed an
  entente (an alliance). Later Britain made
  another entente with both France and Russia.
• The Triple Entente did not require Britain to
  fight with France or Russia, but it almost
  certainly ensured that Britain would not fight
  against them.

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Imperialism

• Competition for colonies (and the natural
  resources they provided) in Africa and Asia
  pushed European nations to the brink of war.
• Colonies required the colonizers to maintain a
  military force to protect them.
• As European countries continued to compete for
  colonies their sense of rivalry and mistrust of
  one another deepened.

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Turn to textbook page 884.

• Read the History in Depth The Armenian Massacre
• What caused the Armenian Massacre?

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Assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the
  throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
• On June 28, 1914, Gavrillo Princip, a member of
  the terrorist group the Black Hand, shot both the
  archduke and his wife.
• The Austro-Hungarian government didnt know if
  the Serbian government was directly involved but
  didnt care.

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Assassination

• Before the assassination of the archduke the
  smaller countries of Europe had a complicated
  system of secret treaties that bound them
  together in the event of a attack.
• Within hours of the death of the archduke these
  alliances came into effect as Austria-Hungary
  declares war on Serbia.
• Russia sided with Serbia while Germany sided with
  Austro-Hungary

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• Use the map on the left to answer the following
  questions.
• Why would Germans worry about an alliance between
  France and Germany?
• Based on the information on the map, which
  alliance do you think had the greater military
  advantage in 1914?

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Kaiser William II All the long years of my
reign, William II (18591941) complained, my
colleagues, the monarchs of Europe, have paid no
attention to what I have to say. As kaiser, he
fought to win respect for himself and his
empire. Williams rivalry with other rulers was
in many ways a family feud. He and George V of
Britain were cousins, grandchildren of Queen
Victoria. Tsar Nicholas II was a cousin by
marriage. When war broke out in 1914, the kaiser
blamed George and Nicky. If my grandmother had
been alive, she would never have allowed it! How
did the kaisers desire for respect influence his
policies?