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Causes of world war 1
Imperialism
Nationalism
Militarism
Alliance System Imperialism
Extending economic and political control over weaker nations
new markets
cultural superiority
desire for military strength Nationalism
Devotion to the interest and culture of one nation
lead to competition
Russia vs. Austria-Hungry
Fight over Serbia Alliance System
Formal agreement or union between nations -
Assassination of Franz
gavrilo princip killed him because he wanted to make a greater serbia. -
allies v centeral powers
Allies Triple Alliance
France Germany
Britain Austria-Hungry
Russia Italy
USA + Ottoman Empire
= Central Powers -
Period: to
new weapons
toxic gas, tanks, airplanes -
fighting begins
first battle in serbia -
trench warfare conditions
rats the size of cats and its extremly wet -
british blockade
purpose was to stop war supplies from going to germany -
great migration
many people in world war 1 moved to other places not affected by war -
lusitania
was sunk by german u boat -
zimmerman note
Zimmermann Note
Germans declare war on US
Want Mexico and Japan to join them
Mexico will acquire land in America -
election of 1916
wilson wins -
america joins the fight
they join because of the lusitania and the zimmerman note -
selective service act
24 million signed up
3 million get drafted
Exemption Deferrals -
espionage and sedition acts
prohibited any attempt to interfere with military operations -
Period: to
womens roles
they farmed and worked at factorys -
schenck v united states
he thought that the espionage acts where unconstitutional so he sent pamphlets to soldiers saying that they couldnt be forced to fight -
CPI
George Creel
Head of the CPI
Former Muckraker -
big 4
Woodrow Wilson (US)
Georges Clemenceau (France)
David Lloyd George (UK)
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando (Italy) -
WIB
woodrow wilsion -
armistice
stopped all fighting -
14pts
said that they should make more countrys. woodrow wilsion made it -
treaty of varsailies
The main terms of the Versailles Treaty were:
The surrender of all German colonies overseas as League of Nations mandates;
The return of Alsace-Lorraine to France;
Cession of Eupen-Malmedy to Belgium, Memel to Lithuania, the Hultschin district to Czechoslovakia;
Most of the province of Posen, and also most of West Prussia to Poland;
A part of industrial Upper Silesia to Poland;
A plebiscite to be held in another part of Upper Silesia to decide whether it should become a part of Poland -
map
new counrys are Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia -
league of nations
made to keep the peace between nations -
final statistics
3 trillion 900 billion 473 million, total dead 16.5 million