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WWI: What are the causes of WWI?

WWI: What are the causes of WWI?. Long-Term Causes of WWI. Nationalism : devotion to the interests & culture of your nation. Imperialism : fight to control areas around the world. Militarism : building of many weapons and a large military.

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WWI: What are the causes of WWI?

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  1. WWI: What are the causes of WWI?

  2. Long-Term Causes of WWI • Nationalism: devotion to the interests & culture of your nation • Imperialism: fight to control areas around the world • Militarism: building of many weapons and a large military • Alliance System: making “friends” with nations

  3. The Spark! Archduke Franz Ferdinand Sarajevo, Bosnia • June, 1914: ________________________ assassinated in _______________ • Alliance system pulls in one country after another into war • Germany follows the ______________ , to avoid fighting on two fronts Schlieffen Plan

  4. Trench Warfare • Allies & Germans “dig trenches” for a long battle • 300 miles of trenches across France • ____________ : muddy space in-between trenches filled w/ barbed wire, bombs No man’s land ●Slide 12

  5. Please review your notes by answering the following questions. • What are the 4 long-term causes to WWI? • Why were so many Euro. nations pulled into the conflict?

  6. German Soldiers

  7. Trench fighting

  8. Europe at the start of WWI

  9. The Balkan Peninsula; The “Powder Keg of Europe”

  10. The Schlieffen Plan

  11. Trenches across France and Belgium

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