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Chapter 23
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Nationalism
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A feeling of intense loyalty to one’s
country or group
Ethnic Groups
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People who share a common language
and traditions
Militarism
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The build up of military power
Alliance System
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Defense agreements among nations
Entente
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An understanding among nations
Balance of Power
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A system that prevents any one country
from dominating the others.
Causes of WWI
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M – militarism
A – alliance system
I – imperialism
N – nationalism
Assassination of the Archduke
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 The
assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914,
was the event that sparked the
beginning of the war.
 The assassination would not have led
to war had it not been for the
alliance systems that were in place
during this time.
Nationalism and Imperialism
Nationalism served as both a unifying and
disruptive force in the late 1800s and early
1900s.
 Imperialism led to conflict because there
were few area left to colonize
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Triple Alliance
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 Germany
 Austria-Hungary
 Italy
Triple Entente
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 Great
Britain
 France
 Russia
Alliances and Brewing Trouble
The alliances aimed to keep peace by
maintaining a balance of power.
 A hotbed of nationalist and ethnic rivalries
existed in the early 1900s in the Balkan
Peninsula in southeastern Europe.
 Gavrilo Princip; Princip and other terrorists
plotted the murder to advance the cause
of the unification of Slavic peoples.
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War Begins
WWI began on July 28, 1914, when
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia
 Great Britain declared war on Germany
because they invaded Belgium, which had
been guaranteed neutrality in an 1839
treaty.
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Germany invades Belgium
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 Germany
hoped to defeat France
quickly by moving through
Belgium and into France before they
could prepare.
 The Belgians were harder to
defeat than expected which
allowed France and Great Britain
time to prepare, so France didn’t
fall to Germany as expected.
Central Powers
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 Germany
 Austria-Hungary
 Ottoman
Empire
Allied Powers
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 Great
Britain
 France
 Russia
 Japan joined in August 1914
 Italy joined in 1915
 United States joined in 1917
Battle of the Marne
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 The
battle saved Paris from invasion
by the Germans and boosted French
morale.
 The
battle made it clear that neither
side was capable of winning the war
quickly or easily.
Battle of Verdun
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The Germans attacked the town of Verdun
hoping to wipe out the French in February 1916.
The Germans came within 4 miles of the city,
but the French counterattacked in October
driving the Germans back.
The battle accomplished little. The French
suffered 540,000 casualties and the Germans
suffered 430,000.
Verdun became a symbol of French resistance.
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Battle of Somme
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The tank was first introduced by the British in
this battle, and the Germans introduced the
flamethrower.
The British were unable to break through
German lines.
When the attack was over Britain and France’s
casualties totaled 615,000. German losses were
estimated at 650,000.
For such a high price, the Allies had only gained
about 7 miles.
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Weapons of WWI
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Tank – wasn’t very reliable, but could run over
machine gun nest, destroy barbed wire, and
provide cover
Flamethrower – could kill large numbers of
people from a distance
Zeppelin – used to bomb cities
Bi-plane – at first used for observation, later to
fight other planes in the air
Machine gun – fired faster rounds than a regular
gun
U-boats – sank unsuspected Allied ships
Poison gas – responsible for almost a million
casualties in WWI first used by the Germans
U-boats
Test Question
U-boat attacks on ships at sea eventually
affected the United States and changed
the course of the war.
 Germany had hoped their u-boats would
end the war before the U.S. had a chance
to enter on the side of the Allies.
 This did not happen, due to the convoy
system.
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Trenches and Christmas Truce
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