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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. -
Imperialism
Imperialism is a system where a mighty nation controls and exploits one or more colonies. -
Alliances
The Allies of World War I, known as the Allied Powers, were the countries that batteled the Central Powers during the First World War. -
Militarism
Militarism is the desire of people that a country should maintain a strong military facility and be able to use it aggressively to defend national interests. -
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie
The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Yugoslavia.The assassination led directly to the First World War when Austria-Hungary subsequently issued an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia, which was partially rejected. -
Germany's Blank Check to Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary wanted to have war with Serbia for as long as they could be confirm of Germanys support. The Germany Kaiser, Wilhelm II, gave this support for their neighbouring ally through a telegram to Emperor Franz Joseph II. This telegram is known today as the "Blank Cheque." -
WWI begins
Russia’s ally, France, long suspicious of German ofense began its own mobilization, urging Great Britain—the third member, with France and Russia, of the Triple Entente alliance—to acknowledge its support. A divided British government declined to do so initially, but events soon precipitated Britain’s move towards war as well. -
Sinking of the Lusitania
Lusitania had bad luck to fall victim to torpedo attack relatively early in the First World War, before tactics for evading submarines were properly implemented or understood. The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, devoted to the American entry into World War I and became an important symbol in military recruiting campaigns of why the war was being fought. -
US entry into the war
President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. U.S. Senate voted in support of the measure to declare war on Germany. The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917. -
Zimmerman Telegram
a message from the German foreign secretary, to the German ambassador to Mexico introduce a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany. -
Treaty of Versailles
It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand -
Effects of WWI
Many countries began to adopt more liberal forms of government, and a hostile Germany was forced to pay for a large deal of war reparations, which ultimately led to the start of World War II -
Dawes Plan and Young Plan
The Young Plan was a program for German reparations debts after World War I written in 1929 and formally adopted in 1930. The Dawes Plan of 1924 was mapped to take Weimar Germany out of hyperinflationand to return Weimar’s economy to form stability. The Dawes Plan got its name as the man who headed the committee was an American called Charles Dawes. -
Great Depression
The deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of industrialized world. In the U.S, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash. -
Hitler
The worldwide economic depression had hit the country especially hard, and millions of people were out of work. This gave a chance for the rise of a new leader, Adolf Hitler, and his Nazi party. Hitler was a powerful and spellbinding speaker who got attentions of a wide following of Germans desperate for change.He promised the disenchanted a better life. -
Germany's resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare
The lethal risk of the German U-boat submarine raises its head again, as Germany returns to the policy of unrestricted submarine warfare it had before suspended in response to pressure from the United States and other neutral countries.
