THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR I
“LA BELLE EPOQUE” Social divisions 1-2% upper class 25-35% middle class urban lower class and peasants on edge of poverty workers and trade unions
NATIONALISM Ireland Norway Austria-Hungary Russia: pograms…and protector of the Slavic peoples Ottoman Empire-the “sick man of Europe”:the Armenians The Balkans Serbs Bosnians Montenegrins Croats Slovenes Albanians Bulgarians Romanians
MILITARISM
ALLIANCES 1871-1890: Bismarck worked to keep the peace…wanted to isolate France. 1879: Dual Alliance w/Austria-Hungary 1882: Triple Alliance added Italy 1887: treaty with Russia
ALLIANCES AFTER 1890 Wilhelm II let alliances lapse France and Russia made a deal in 1894 1904: Entente Cordiale…Britain and France 1907:Entente with Russia TRIPLE ALLIANCE V. TRIPLE ENTENTE
SARAJEVO June 28, 1914