1. NATIONALISM IMPERIALISM ALLIANCES MILITARISM
THE MAIN CAUSES OF WWI
ASSASSINATION
NATIONALISM
IMPERIALISM
ALLIANCES
MILITARISM
Imperialism

2. ASSASSINATION ARCHDUKE FERDINAND
PRINCIP
NO INDEPENDENCE HE’S OUT OF HERE!
BLACK HAND GANG

3. LEADING UP TO WAR

4. WAR STARTS CHANGES MADE

5. WAR IS ON AUSTRIA HUNGRY DECLARES WAR ON SERBIA
RUSSIA PREPARES FOR WAR AGAINST AUSTRIA-HUNGRY
GERMANY AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
DECLARED WAR ON RUSSIA
GERMANY INVADES BELGIUM,
BRITAIN ENTERS WAR AGAINST GERMANY
GERMANY FACES A WAR ON TWO FRONTS

6. SCHLIEFFEN PLAN

7. TRENCH WARFARE STALEMATE They go to Trenches FLU WEAPONS GAS
TANKS & AIRPLANES END TRENCH WARFARE
Weapons demonstrate impact of industrialization on how wars will be fought in the future

8. SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA AMERICANS CALL FOR WAR
PRESIDENT WILSON HOLDS OUT FOR A LASTING PEACE IN EUROPE
HORRORS OF WWI - U.S. FOLLOWS POLICY OF ISOLATIONISM

9. BRITISH BLOCKADE GERMANY U-BOATS WILL DESTROY ALL ENEMY SHIPS
UNRESTRICTED WARFARE

10. SUSSEX PLEDGE
GERMANY PROMISES TO STOP UNRESTRICTED WARFARE WITHOUT A WARNING & SAVING LIVES

11. RUSSIA IS OUT OF WAR AMERICA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY
USSR SIGNS PEACE TREATY WITH GERMANY
RUSSIA IS OUT OF WAR
GERMANY AT IT AGAIN – SINKS AMERICAN SHIPS
AMERICA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY
CZAR NICHOLAS II
ABDICATES THE THRONE

12. AMERICA PREPARES FOR WAR
SELECTIVE SERVICE
AEF
GENERAL PERSHING
CONVOY SYSTEM
AMERICANS JOIN THE TRENCHES
ALLIES HALT GERMANS
SAVE PARIS
GERMANS RIOT – FOOD
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY -REVOLUTION

14. RISE OF DICTATORS AFTER WWI
Treaty of Versailles – harsh/unfair
World -Wide Great Depression
People look to single ruler to solve problems

15. MUSSOLINI IN ITALY Starts Fascist Party in Italy
Fascism—Country more important than individual
Mussolini - take Italy back to glory of Roman Empire
Black Shirts – Fascist Militia

16. STALIN IN RUSSIA Stalin leader of USSR in 1926 Imposed Communism
Suppressed the people
Industrialized USSR
Ruled by Fear
Killed 8-10 million peasants
Great Purge-Stalin kills all who oppose him
Kills over 30 million people during his term in office

17. ADOLPH HITLER IN GERMANY
Anti—Communist
Imprisoned in attempt to take over Munich and Berlin
Imprisoned
Wrote Mein Kamph
Superior Aryan race
Blamed problems on Jewish people
Holocaust

18. MILITARY CONTROL IN JAPAN
Meiji Restoration - Japan industrializes & modernizes
Build modern army and navy
Takes on imperialistic role for natural resources
Take control of Korea, defeat China and take Taiwan, defeat Russia and gain control of Manchuria
Rape of Nanjing – Japanese soldiers murder hundreds of thousands of Chinese-soldiers & civilians