1. Objectives: Explain the causes of WWI
World War I The Causes
Objectives:
Explain the causes of WWI

2. Bellringer
How would imperialism cause increased tension between nations?

3. Copy HW Read and outline p. 593-600 Questions:
What were the causes of WWI?
What was Teddy Roosevelt’s plan toward Latin America?
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
What is federalism?

4. Compare/Share HW 1. What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
2. How did the US acquire the Panama Canal?
3. What were the causes of the Spanish American War?
4. What was the intent of the Monroe Doctrine?

5. Intro – Gavril Princip – What was his role?

6. WWI Breaks Out M A N I
*A*

7. Militarism = glorification of armed strength
Germany = leader – upset balance of power
France and GB attempt to keep up with munitions’ production

8. Alliances
=when countries agree to defend one another or act together aggressively
Triple Alliance = Germany, Austria Hungary and Italy
Triple Entente = France, GB, and Russia

9. Nationalism
Pride in one’s country or the desire to create an autonomous country
Result of multi – ethnic empires
Pan-Slavism
Pan Germanism

10. Imperialism
Countries were already vying for the same overseas territories
AH – annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina (1908)
Russia – interested in Balkans
France – Alsace Lorraine
Italy – AH’s territory

11. Assassination
June 28th, 1914 = Gavril Princip (member of the Black Hand) shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo

12. How did this lead to war?
AH issues ultimatum to Serbia – conduct inquiry –Serbia refuses – AH declares war
Russia backs Serbia
Germany backs AH
Germany declares war on Russia/FR
GB declare war on Germany
Italy remains neutral

13. New/Old? Alliances Allies = GB, Fr, and Russia
Central Powers = Germany, AH and Ottoman Empire
US = “neutral”

15. Schlieffen Plan
Use Majority of German army to attack Belgium – surprise outcome

16. Germans stopped by France and GB at the 1st Battle of the Marne
Germans dug trenches – making “Dead Man’s Land” and a LONG War…

17. Battle of the Somme – huge casualties
GB = 60 K
“Only way out of the trenches was on a stretcher.”

18. New Weapons of War

26. American Neutrality In action but not thought!
Most supported the Allies

27. Challenges to Neutrality
British blockade of Germany disrupted trade
German U-boat activity
100 killed on March 28, 1915
Lusitania sunk by German U-boat torpedo – 128 Americans killed
Arabic (BR)
Sussex (FR)

30. Closure
As a neutral country what would your response be to the sinking of these ships and the deaths of Americans?