1. Unit 5 Day 5 (Causes of World War I) Quote: “I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier I brought him up to be my pride and joy. Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder To shoot some other mother’s darling boy?” U.S. anti-war song
Focus Question(s): What responsibilities did the United States have during WWI to its citizens and to the global community?
Specified Content: Main factors of WWI: nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and the alliance system; assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; participants in WWI; trench warfare
State Standards: Strand 1 Concept 7 PO 3 Analyze events which caused a transformation of the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

2. Causes of World War I
The First World War began on August 14th 1914, when German soldiers invaded Belgium. The causes of the war began many years before.

3. The war was caused by four main factors; nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and the alliance system.
Nationalism
Imperialism
Militarism
Alliances

4. The spark that ignited the war took place on June 28th 1914, when Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, were assassinated by a Serbian nationalist.

5. The war will be fought by Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire against England, France, and Russia.

6. The war soon turned into a bloody, devastating stalemate
The war soon turned into a bloody, devastating stalemate. Each side dug trenches that would stretch from the English Channel (on the Atlantic Ocean) to Switzerland.