Bellringer• Once the bell rings listen to

the situation read and answer the bellringer questions that are located on your Causes of WWI worksheet.

Nationalism• Nationalism caused rivalries

between France, Britain, Germany, and Austria-Hungary.

• Unifying force and a dividing force.

Imperialism• European countries

fought for economic supremacy. Competition led to imperialism and tension between nations.

Militarism• Nations (Germany and

Britain) competed to build the largest, most powerful navy.

Alliance System• By 1914 Europe was

divided into two sides by a series of secret alliances.

Alliances• Central Powers• Germany• Austria-

Hungary• Ottoman-

Turkey

• The Allies• Russia• France• Great

Britain

The Spark • In 1914, Archduke

Francis Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarejevo by a member of a Slav nationalist group.

Bellringer

• After you have completed the Guided Reading Check answer the questions based on the political cartoon.

Steps to World War I• Militarism• Nationalism• Imperialism• Alliance System

Pre-War Years/Militarism• Weapons

production/Lethalness of Weapons, and spread of weaponry all

• Increase • Great Britain and Germany

New weapons

• Machine guns• Poison gas• Submarines• airplanes

Militarism• Focus is on glorifying war

and building weapons and armed forces

• Build up of German Navy threatens Great Britain

Nationalism• Led to creation of new nations in the Western part of the old Ottoman Empire, home of Franz Ferdinand.

• Threatens to up the Ottoman empire home of Franz Ferdinand.

• Russia pushes nationalism attempting to unite all Slavs, esp. in Balkans.

• Germans want revenge for France taking Alsace-Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian War.

Imperialism• Competition between Great

Britain, France, and Germany over colonies in Africa.

• Europeans fight for Spheres of influence in China.

Alliance System

• First set up by Bismarck after upsetting the balance of power in Europe by unifying Germany.

• Triple Alliance and Triple Entente

Immediate Cause• Archduke Franz Ferdinand

of A-H is assassinated by Slav nationalist.

• A-H invades Serbia, which sets off the alliance system.

Bellringer

•Pick up your handouts and take out your planner.

Bellringer

• Take out your homework that is due today on World War I.

• Discuss and Hand in

The End of the First World War•

A War of Attrition•

Russia Drops out of the war• The Bolshevik Revolution of

1917 was a Communist uprising against the Russian government causing Russian troops to withdraw from WWI

1917: The United States Joins•

Technology of the War•

•

Machine Gun

The Threat of Gas

A Poison gas victim

Allied Victory!!!!!

President Wilson and his 14 Points

Near the end of war Wilson released his plan for future peace.

Provisions• Freedom of seas and trade• Limitation on arms• End of secret alliances• Self-rule of all nations• Establishment of a general

assembly of nations.

Germany’s view• Germany thought that

Wilson’s 14 points would be the basis of the war ending peace treaty and agreed to an armistice.

2 Reservations

British Prime Minister

French Prime Minister

Britain = did not want open seas

• France: Wanted War reparations

Treaty of Versailles

• The “Big Four” meet in Versailles to discuss peace treaty.

Russia France

United States Britain

The Big Four

Treaty of Versailles

• Reduced German army and weapons

• Reduced Germany in size• Germany was stripped of all

of its overseas colonies

• Germany must accept blame for causing the war and pay reparations.

The Harshness of the Treaty of Versailles would led to…

• picture

• German resentment of the allies would burst open in the form of Nazism 2 decades later.

Map Exercise

League of Nations• Congress rejected

membership in the League of Nations.

• The League of Nations essentially became a peacekeeping force without a sword.

Homework

• Guided Reading 28. 5• GR Check on Monday