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The Great War
Five (Four) Main Causes of World War I
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M-A-N-I-A
o M___________________________
o A___________________________
o N___________________________
o I___________________________
o A___________________________
Militarism
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Nations begin to build up their __________________________
o Usually in __________________________ to what other nations were doing
 “Keeping up with the Jones’s”
Alliance System
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Nations make _________________________ to ______________________ each other in case they are attacked
Triple Alliance
 Austria-Hungary
 ______________________
 ____________________ (will join Allies in 1915)
Triple Entente
 ________________________________
 Russia
 ________________________________
 __________________________ (will join in 1917)
Nationalism
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Loyalty to your nation, belief that your nation is the ____________ and ______________________________
Imperialism
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Countries in Europe (Just like in the US) desire more ________________, ____________________ and colonies.
Nations compete to see who can get the most _____________________________
Assassination
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Sparking Event
o (___________________________________)
o The ________________________________ of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife Sofia
by a member of the _________________________________
The War Begins
Central Powers
 __________________________________
 Germany
 __________________________________
 __________________________________
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Allied Powers
 Serbia
 __________________________________
 France
 Great Britain
 1915 – ___________________________
The United States is __________________________________ for the first three years of the war and many
Americans want to stay out of the war.
Why did the US enter the war?
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Submarine Warfare — Germans warn that all ships entering the waters around the ________________________
are subjected to be sunk
German __________________________________ (U-Boat)
Lusitania
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____________________________ (May 1915) passenger ship sunk by German U-boat
o May have been carrying ____________________________ as well as passengers -- passengers warned
not to travel on Lusitania
o Wilson ____________________________ -- nothing happened
The Final Straw
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Unrestricted ___________________________ Warfare (Jan. 1917)
o Early January 1917 -- Germany decided to pursue “unrestricted submarine warfare”
o Tell Wilson on January 31st, he cuts off _____________________________________
Zimmerman Telegraph (March 1, 1917)
o Coded message from Germany to ___________________________.
o Says if Mexico attacks US, Germany will help Mexico take back _____________________, New Mexico
and ________________________.
o British intercepted, ______________________ and sent to the US
Russian Revolution (March 15, 1917)
o Czar _______________________ of Russia is toppled from power and Russia is taken over by a
republican government (no communists yet) Russia not a __________________________ -- now it is a
war between democracy & autocratic rule
America Enters the War
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Wilson asks ___________________________ for a declaration of war.
What impact did US _________________________ have on the war?
o America’s military resources of ______________________ and war ______________________ tipped
the balance of the war and led to Germany’s defeat.
Following the War
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The _________________________________________ Conference and the Fourteen Points
o _______________________________ are Wilson’s plan to eliminate the causes of war
 Key ideas
 __________________________________
 Freedom of the __________________
 League of _________________
 ______________________ system
o French and English insisted on ____________________________ of Germany.
Treaty of Versailles
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Treaty of Versailles
o Germany accepted _______________________________ for starting the war
o A ______________________________________ was created.
o
National ____________________________ were redrawn, creating many new ____________________.
US stance on the Treaty
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The United States did not _______________________ the Treaty of Versailles
o Did not like the League of Nations
o Did not want to be involved in European _______________________________