1. WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1914-1920
THE GREAT WAR BEGINS 11-1
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

2. Students analyze the causes and course of the First World War.
State Standard 10.5
Students analyze the causes and course of the First World War.

4. World War I Causes:
Nationalism
Great Power Rivalries
Balkan Nationalism
Deterioration of Austrian and Ottoman Empires

6. Interlocking Alliances
The Triple Alliance
Germany
Austria
Italy
The Triple Entente
France
Britain
Russia

8. German Militarism
Legacy of the Junkers
Internal conflict of Germany
Modern state with Medieval government

12. An Arms Race
Imperialist challenges
Fashoda
Sudan
Morocco
German Naval Expansion

14. Crisis in the Balkans
Competition between Russia and Austria for dominance
Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated by the Black Hand

19. The Two Sides
Central Powers
Germany
Austro-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Italy( for a while)

21. The Allies
Britain
France
Russia
Serbia
U.S.( in 1917 )

23. War on Two Fronts
The Western Front
Schlieffen plan-defeat France first
Germans stopped at the Marne River
Italy refuses to join Central Powers

25. Eastern Front
Russian vs. German
Germans stop Russians at Tannenberg Forest
Horrific Russian losses