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• Nationalism-Pride in your country

• Imperialism-Competing for colonies

• Militarism- Building up the military

• Alliances-Forming partnership with each others nation

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Nationalism/Imperialism

• Pan-German Movement- The hope to unite all German speaking people

• Pan-Slavic Movement- The hope to unit all Slavic speaking people

• They believed that “bigger is better”

Militarism/Alliances

• Military was built for two reason: 1) to protect their colonies 2) peer pressure

• They used mandatory draft to get a bigger army.

Trench Warfare

• To protect positions and cut down on losses both side made trenches.

• Even though they may have thought that the trenches would prevent a lot of other problems. It caused many other problems in the trenches.

• Problems: Mud Rats, smell, body rot, staying dry, maggots, lice and disease.

Why the US entered WWISinking of the Lusitania

There are many reasons why the US entered

WWI and one of them was the Sinking of

the Lusitania. There were many passengers

aboard, although they were secretly

carrying explosives. There were 1,198

passengers that died and many of them

were Americans.

• The Sussex pledge was were Germany

promised that they would let merchant ships

know before they sank them. So they could

save and rescue more people.

Why the US entered WWIUnrestricted submarine warfare

US in WW1

• The war took 27 days and $ 1.2 million dollars.

• The 11th hour, the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 the war ended.

• General Pershing led the US troops.

Treaty of Versailles•

• Russia created Poland and Finland and many other

countries.

• Austria created Hungary, Czech and Yugoslavia.

• Ottoman Empire divided up between the allies.

• They punished Germany and then they had to take full

responsibility for fixing it.