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Lesson 3 World War I Begins

Causes of Conflict

Determining Cause and Effect Use the Cause and Effect diagram to explain what led to World War I. Write notes from your reading to explain details of each cause.

1. Nationalism

2. Empire Building

4. Creating Military Alliances

3. Military Increases

5. Trouble in the Balkans

World War I Breaks Out

Cause Effect

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONWhy is history important?

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War Breaks Out in Europe6. Sequencing Use details from the text to number the following events in the order they occurred. 

 Britain declares war on Germany.

 Russia mobilizes for war.

 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

 Germany declares war on Russia.

 Germany declares war on France.

 Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated.

 Germany invades Belgium.

 The French and British stop the German advance.

7. Listing Make a list of the technology that was first used in World War I.

8. Defining What are the meanings of total war and propaganda?

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A Global War

Identifying Write a fact about each topic listed.

9. The Eastern Front 

10. British blockade 

11. German U-Boats 

12. The Lusitania 

13. The Zimmermann telegram 

14. U.S. declaration of war 

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