DO NOW – Take out your Homework Assignment…Pass to the front CLEAR YOUR DESK BESIDES A PEN & BLANK SHEET OF PAPER!!!! Agenda – Quiz – Mobilization – July Crisis Simulation Icebreaker ~ Clear your desk ~ QUIZ!!!!!

 July Austro – Hungarian empire issued an ultimatum to Serbia  Blamed Serbia for failing to control terrorism  Demanded Austria monitor security measures  Was a threat to Serbian independence  Based on no evidence that the Serbian gov’t had been responsible for the assassination

 Preservation of the Austro – Hungarian Empire  Reliance on the Triple Alliance (Germany)  Believed a quick victory possible  Use the growth of military power and military planning  Prevent Serb nationalism spreading

 National feeling support for fellow Slavs in Serbia  Military Power and Preparation  Alliance network (France & possibly Britain giving support)  Need to support the Russian Empire (prestige and power of the czar)  Humiliation in foreign affairs in  Believed in quick victory

 German historian Fritz Fischer (Germany’s War Aims in WWI)  Germany used assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand as excuse to go to war  Aim was to make Germany world power  Domestic pressure urging expansion  Germany encouraged Austria to go to war

 German historian Gerhard Ritter - Statesmanship & War  Counter argument  Germany motivated by the desire to keep Austria as a great power and prevent Russian dominating the Balkans  Austria determined on a risky war  Germany miscalculated by expecting Britain would not join the conflict

 Germany was a recent creation (1871)  In need of alliances  Little hope of treaty with France  Franco Russian Alliance  The Schlieffen Plan – Russia would be slower to mobilize = rapid attack on France  German naval expansion  German fear on encirclement

 France concerned by Germany’s challenge to its empire  Had been building up its military power  French hoped for support through their country’s alliance with Russia & friendship with Britain  Nationalism = STRONG…angry about Alsace - Lorraine

 Ententes with France & Russia gave Britain moral obligations  1893 Treaty with Belgium had to be enforced to be viewed as a major power  Security of Britain  Britain’s naval power  Balance of power  Germany would be encircled

 In your assigned groups –  We are going thru the events of the July Crisis. It is our goal to avoid World War I, while also respecting the wishes of the many nations involved. You will draft your own peace plan to propose to the various nations involved.