Causes of the Great War

WWI

3 ‘isms’ and…the other one

• Imperialism When one country controls all aspects of:• Militarism The rapid build up:• Nationalism An intense love of:• Alliances When two or more nations:

Imperialism• Napoleon's Empire

• Meet the ‘Iron Chancellor’ and his puppet king

• Nothing a little WAR can’t fix…

Journal 3/15

You are Great Britain; you have the strongest Navy in the world. Close to your borders is the newly powerful nation of Germany (remember…it used to be a confederation but Bismarck and William I combined the Prussian empire with the German…you remember) has started a campaign of militarism. How do you feel about this? Why?

Militarism • How German

industrialism leads to Militarism

• A warning from the ‘Iron Chancellor’

• Kaiser William II

Nationalism• Diverse Hapsburg

Empire• Austria becomes

Austria- Hungary• The assassination of

Franz Ferdinand

A NEW KIND OF WARFighting WWI

Two Front War• Schlieffen Plan was:– Attack ______Belgium– Causes______to join:

• The plan ____– Russia was _______than

Germany thought– France and Britain push:

• Both sides ‘dig in’ meaning they fight in _______

Stalemate on the Western Front• A stalemate is:• _____ cause a stalemate– No one will cross:– Trenches can be easily:

• Modern tech does not:– Poison gas was________– Tanks could roll over

trenches but:– Aircrafts had little effect:• Zeppelins:• “Dog fights”:

More Modern Technology• Submarines – U-Boats (unterseeboot):– U-boats sink ships:– The Allies form convoys:

• Rapid fire Machine guns– Less re-_____– Kills 100s of men ______

• Long rang artillery– Like a _____– Hit target from up to:

More Modern Technology• Submarines – U-Boats (unterseeboot):– U-boats sink ships:– The Allies form convoys:

• Rapid fire Machine guns– Less re-_____– Kills 100s of men ______

• Long rang artillery– Like a _____– Hit target from up to:

Journal 4/29

Turn to page 828. Read the section from the novel All Quite on the Western Front. Answer the questions at the bottom right.

SLOW END TO A LONG WARBreaking the stalemate, Total war and seeking ‘peace w/o victory’

Total War:• Conscription is used:– Defecting:– Morale is ____

• Economic total war– Gov’t regulate _____– Gov’t ______food– Gov’t raise _____

• Britain enforces a _________:– Not supposed to stop:– To retaliate, Germany:

Total War; Controlling public opinion• Propaganda spreads

ideas to promote a:– Censor art, _______

writing, films and _____– Gov’t create favorable:

• Casualties of war are withheld:

• Women are encouraged to:– Work in factories:– As______

Ending the Stalemate• Russia leaves due to:– Tsar is_________– New leader:– Germany can focus on:

• US enters– Germans sink Lusitania:– British intercept the

Zimmermann telegram• Kaiser asks________to

join them in war• Americans start to

__________Germany

Peace without victory• German gov’t seeks an

armistice or:• Paris Peace Conference

leaders of the ______ ______meet to:– _________is not invited– None of the:

• Treaty of Versailles punishes________1)2)3)