LONG TERM CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I•Growing sense of nationalism and imperialism fuels competition and antagonistic feelings among European powers•This will lead to a large scale military buildup by world powers•Fear and jealousies among European powers results in creation of alliance system•The easiest way to remember the long term causes of WWI is the word MAINM-militarism A-alliances I- imperialism N-nationalism

ALLIES CENTRAL POWERS

Great Britain Germany

France Ottoman Empire

Russia Austrian-Hungarian Empire

Serbia Bulgaria

Belgium Italy(will switch sides in 1915)

Canada

Japan

Australia

Greece

US(not official until 1917)

Situation in Europe, Spring 1914• World powers with a history of not liking each other are

locked in global competition, living on top of each other, motivated by self interests, are armed to the teeth, and now have friends who will fight with them

• Europe is a powder keg awaiting a spark• Spark is provided by Serbian teen Gavrilo Princip who leaps out

of a crowd, produces a gun and pumps a few rounds into Archduke Franz Ferdinand (heir to A-H Empire throne) and his lovely wife Sophie. They have met their maker.

• Princip was a member of the secret Serbian group Black Hand• A-H Empire was very cross at Serbia, they decide it would be

good to declare war on them• Alliance system will kick in and WWI is on like Donkey

Kong(by the way is one of my favorite video games ever)

The War Begins• German Army will start war by invading Belgium• Plan is to win quick victory in west, conquer France,

then focus on east and defeating Russia• Allied Armies retreat to Marne River in France in Sept.

1914. By the spring thaw, a defensive war had developed

• Both sides had dug trenches and a stalemate ensued• Neither side could gain the upper hand• Military technology was ahead of medical technology,

so the devastation was on a scale never seen before in human history (1st Battle of the Somme River)

NEW WEAPONS OF WAR

• This is a tank; it was slow but packed a punch and it was very, very, very scary.

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCsldbh9hAY&list=PL39D7D09D63BA30D3

This is a machine gun. It killed lots of people.

This is a submarine. It sank lots of other boats.

These guys had poison gas poured into their eye sockets.

This is poison gas being moved by Mother Nature.

This is a gas mask. It might help you, there was no manufacturer guarentee.

Yes you guessed it, this is an airplane. WWI style.

US Stays Out• In 1914, public opinion said no to war, however

they did support the Allies• Britain cut cable in Atlantic, all war news is filtered

through them.• Reports of German atrocities and stronger cultural

and economic ties with Britain increases sympathy• British naval blockade creates food shortages in

Germany• German U-boats target boats in Atlantic, including

US flagged ships and passenger liners(Lusitania) • Germans promise to stop USW with Sussex

Pledge, they go back on it later

US Doesn’t stay out

• Despite running on a “he kept us out of war” platform, Wilson is forced to act against Central Powers

• Germany resumed USW in Atlantic and we intercepted a cable to Mexico, in that Germany promised to fund an attack on the US by Mexican Army and when they won they would get back Texas and everything else those Yankee imperialist pigs took from them. (Zimmerman Note)

• Wilson gets mad, as does Congress they declare war on Central powers in April 1917.

• Collapse of Russia also plays into US declaration of war.

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