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First World War
I.
I A New Type of War
II. Underlying Causes
(Levels of Analysis)
III. Outbreak of War
IV Explaining
IV.
E l i i the
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War
V.
V Fallout
I. A New Type of War
z Global
War
z Total War
z Unprecedented
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Carnage
Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare
Gas Victims
II. Levels of Analysis – A. International
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1. Germany Unification
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2. Military Planning (Rapid)
3. Balance of Power in Europe
B. State/Domestic Level
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Nationalism
Social Darwinism
z Multinational Empires
(Austria--Hungary and Ottoman)
(Austria
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Aggressive
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German P
Policies
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z Social Unrest
z Complacency about War
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
Ethnic Groups in Austria
Austria--Hungary
Enthusiasm at the Outbreak of War
Adolph Hitler in Munich,
Munich August 1914
C. Individual Level Factors
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Weakness of the Key Leaders
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
Tsar Nicholas
Emperor Franz
Franz--Joseph (Austria)
Dominance of Military
Planners in DecisionDecision-Making
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Germany’s
y Schlieffen Plan
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Tsar
Nicholas
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Germany’s Schlieffen Plan
III. Outbreak of War
July 1914: Austrian
A hd k FranzArchduke
Franz
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Ferdinand visits
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Sarajevo
z Serb ‘Black Hand’
and Gavrillo Princip
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The mug shot that
launched millions
of deaths
The Initial German Advance
Germany’s
Germany s advance
halted at the Battle
of the Marne
z “Race to the Sea”
z Four years of
stalemate on the
Western Front
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Advances in First World War
IV. Explaining the War: Realism
IV. Explaining the War: Liberalism
IV: Explaining the War: Identity
(Combined) Causes of World War I
V. Fallout from WW I
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Attempts to Reduce German Power
War Guilt
z Reparations
z Reduced
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Borders
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z Disarmament
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New States
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(Self
(Selflf-Determination)
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z Collective Security
z Revolution in Russia
z Psychological/Cultural
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Europe 1921