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Alliances
Before WW1 broke out Europe split into two main teams. The triple alliance consisted of Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy. The triple entente was Britain, France, and Russia. -
Nationalism
Nationalism is an extreme form of patriotism and loyalty to one’s country. Nationalists place the interests of their own country above the interests of other countries. -
Militarism
Militarism helped start WW1 because different countries denoted themselves to building a bigger army than their neighboring countries. And they would go back and forth building up their armies. -
Imperialism
One of the main causes of the First World War was imperialism: an unequal relationship, often in the form of an empire, forced on other countries and peoples, resulting in domination and subordination of economics, culture, and territory. -
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie
Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Ferdinand and his wife to to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces. -
The start of WW1
WW1 started in Europe after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Britain was in the Triple Entente with France and Russia while they declared war on the alliances Between Germany, Austria-hungary. -
Germany's Blank Check to Austria-Hungary
In Berlin, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany pledges his country’s unconditional support for whatever action Austria-Hungary chooses to take in its conflict with Serbia, a long-running rivalry thrown into crisis by the assassination, the previous June 28, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife by a Serbian nationalist during an official visit to Sarajevo, Bosnia. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Germany declared submarine warfare in May 1915 on Gret Britain. -
Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram was a secret German communication stating an alliance between Mexico and Germany. -
Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare
On this day in 1917, the lethal threat of the German U-boat submarine raises its head again, as Germany returns to the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare it had previously suspended in response to pressure from the United States and other neutral countries. -
US entry into the war and her impact on it
President Woodrow wilson declared war on Germany because Germany’s violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean -
Effects of WWI
USA stats on WW1 are 38 million casualties 17 million of them were deaths and 21 million wounded. -
Rise of Hitler
Hitler came into power in 1919, He created a group of people to overturn the German government. And come into power to become the dictator of Germany. -
Treaty of Versailles
World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. Negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany, its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations. -
Dawes Plan and Young Plan
The Ruhr area was to be evacuated by foreign troops. Reparation payments would begin at one billion marks the first year, increasing annually to two and a half billion marks after five years. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929.
