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Militarism
Militarism was a cause of the war because of the fight for a better stronger army. Militarism, nationalism and imperialism were all connected. In the 19th and early 20th centuries military power was considered a measure of national and imperial strength. States needed a powerful military to protect its interests and support its policies. -
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Imperialism
By 1914 the result of imperialism was a world in which the Western powers had established themselves competitively on every continent. Imperialism was another cause of the war. In most cases the imperialist nation establishes control over this new territory through coercion – examples; through infiltration and annexation, political pressure, war and military conquest. -
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Nationalism
Nationalism was another cause of the war. 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. In the early 1900s, this nationalism created a fierce competition and rivalry between Europe’s powers. These powers were Germany, Austria-Hungary, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, and France. -
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During WW1 alliances made
Alliances were, Russia and Serbia, Germany and Austria-Hungary, France and Russia, Britain and France and Belgium, and Japan and Britain. Because of their alliances, once one declared war on another, they all started declaring war. After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. When Russia began to steady because of its alliance with Serbia, Germany declared war on Russia. This caused the expansion of the war to include all involved in the alliances. -
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot and killed by Gavrilo Princip. This event sparked the outbreak of World War I -
Germany's Blank Check to Austria-Hungary
On July 5, 1914, 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. This was the first truly fatal error made by Germany. -
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WWI
World War I began on July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Soon, mostly because of treaties, Germany, Russia, Great Britain, and France were all drawn into the war. (Great Britian entered the war on August 4, when Germany attacked France through Belgium). The war ended in the late fall of 1918, after the member countries of the Central Powers signed armistice agreements one by one. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
On May 1, 1915, the ship departed New York City bound for Liverpool. On May 7, when the ship was near the coast of Ireland, a torpedo fired by the German submarine U 20 slammed into the boat. A second explosion ripped the liner apart. Within 18 minutes the giant ship went under. 1,019 of the 1,924 aboard died. -
Zimmerman Telegram
The British deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German. This message led the United States into the war. -
Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare
Unrestricted submarine warfare was first introduced in World War I in early 1915, when Germany declared the area around the British Isles a war zone. By September, the German government had imposed such strict constraints on the nation’s submarines that the German navy was told to suspend U-boat warfare altogether. On January 31, 1917, Bethmann Hollweg went before the German Reichstag government and said that the unrestricted submarine warfare would resume Feb. 1. -
US entry into the war
On April 6, 1917, the U.S. joined its allies--Britain, France, and Russia--to fight in World War I. The contributions of the United States military to the Allied effort were decisive. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. This treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The Treaty of Versailles radically altered the Geography of Europe. The Treaty had clauses that resulted in areas of land being taken from Germany. Germany was also held accountable for the cost of the war and the Treaty dictated that compensation would have to be paid to the Allies. -
End of WW1, Effects
America had emerged as a world industrial leader and the US economy was booming, profits were increasing which led to the period in American history called the Roaring Twenties.
The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was over 38 million, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history.
New nations were created from its land: Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia.
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Rise of Hitler
Germans lacked confidence in their weak government, known as the Weimar Republic. These conditions gave the chance for the rise of a new leader, Adolf Hitler, and his party, the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi party). Hitler's "rise" can be considered to have ended in March 1933, after the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933. -
Dawes Plan
The Dawes Plan (proposed by the Dawes Committee, chaired by Charles G. Dawes) was an attempt in 1924 to solve the reparations problem, which had caused international politics following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles. Germany’s annual reparation payments would be reduced, increasing over time as its economy improved. It appeared to have succeeded as 1924 to mid-1929 are viewed by historians as Weimar’s ‘golden years’. -
Young Plan
The Young Plan was an attempt by former wartime allies to support the government of Weimar Germany.The committee, under Owen D. Young, the head of General Electric and a member of the Dawes committee, stated a plan that reduced the total amount of reparations demanded of Germany to 121 billion gold marks, almost $29 billion, payable over 58 years. -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression. In most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its lowest point some 13 -15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country’s banks had failed. On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a day. The stock market crash of 1929 was due to the market being overbought.
