1. Bell Work Take out your Europe in WWI map from yesterday…
What geographic factor made it unlikely that WWI battles would be fought in Great Britain (the United Kingdom) in your map?
Make a 3 column chart with the headings: Triple Alliance, Triple Entente and Other. Place all countries labeled on the map in the proper column

2. Expectations
Today we will continue our notes on the causes of WWI. You are expected to listen attentively to the lecture, and copy the notes as instructed. This is individual work, so I expect you not to talk or have side conversations. If you have a question or have a comment to share raise your hand. Please don’t shout out answers. Stay in your seats. Do not get up for any reason without asking. I’ll know you are on task when I see everyone listening, writing and thinking. I believe everyone can do this however, if anyone chooses to not follow expectations they will be sent to the back table or outside of the classroom to work individually. Questions?

3. World War I Notes

4. Essential Question: Why did all of Europe end up in a war in 1914?

5. What do you see in this picture
What do you see in this picture? What does this tell us about what war was like during World War I?

6. Causes of WWI – MANIA!
Militarism - policy of building up a strong military to prepare for war
Alliances – agreements between nations to provide aid and protect one another
Nationalism – extreme pride in one’s country
Imperialism – when one country takes over another country economically and politically.
Assassination – of Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand

7. 1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures
Militarism
Increase in Defense Expenditures
France
10%
Britain
13%
Russia
39%
Germany
73%

8. -The major European countries start to build up the biggest military possible
Start drafting men to create bigger armies
Focus on creating bigger and better weapons
-European Generals all start planning on how to win a war

9. As countries build up their military, Europeans want to make sure they won’t be attacked
Europeans start to make alliances to make sure that no one will attack them

10. Alliances
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente

14. Nationalism
Nationalism posed a problem for Austria-Hungary and the Balkans, areas comprised of many conflicting national groups.
Serbia’s strong Pan-Slavism and Russia's willingness to support Serbia conflicted with Austria-Hungary's Pan-Germanism.

15. Small ethnic groups still do not have their own countries
Countries like Serbia and Bosnia wanted to create a unified nation of Slavic peoples
Slavic Peoples = people from places like Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, etc. – all speak similar languages and practice similar religions
Austria-Hungary would not let this happen - this caused rebel groups to form to fight against the Austrians

16. Bell Work
Based on the factors discussed so far, which one do you think was the biggest cause of World War I? Why?

17. Imperialism
Imperialism helps cause WWI by creating tension between European countries
Since Europeans were competing for resources, they were looking for any chance to gain territory from others and keep their colonies safe
This was part of the reason why they started to build up their militaries

18. European Conquest of Africa

19. The “Spark”

20. Assassination
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Duchess Sophie at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28th, 1914.

22. Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed in Bosnia by a Serbian nationalist group called the Black Hand who believed that Bosnia should belong to Serbia.

23. Domino Effect
Austria blamed Serbia for Ferdinand’s death and declared war on Serbia.
Germany pledged their support for Austria -Hungary.
Russia pledged their support for Serbia.

24. Domino Effect Germany declares war on Russia.
France pledges their support for Russia.
Germany declares war on France.
Germany invades Belgium on the way to France.
Great Britain supports Belgium and declares war on Germany.

25. Aug. 3 - Germans invade Belgium
Germany adopts Schlieffen plan to fight both France and Russia
Take out France first by invading Belgium
Aug. 3 - Germans invade Belgium
Aug. 4 – Britain declares war on Germans for invading Belgium

26. Allied Powers
Central Powers
World War I

27. (what happened after Assassination)
World War I Flow Chart
On a separate sheet of paper, create a flow chart that explains the causes of WWI.
For each box, write a 1-2 sentence explanation of how that factor set the stage for WWI.
Think what order they should go in – if one thing leads to the next, what
(what happened after Assassination)
World War I

28. Reflection Question
Looking at the events that caused WWI, who do you think is mostly to blame for causing the war? Is anyone to blame? Explain your answer. (3-5 sentences)
Write your answer to this question on the same paper as the flow chart