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    UNIT 5 : AGE OF

    IMPERIALISM
    AND THE FIRST
    WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR


    MILITARISM
    Germany was competing
    with the UK to build
    battleships
    British feared an attack
    on their Empire

    Germany was
    competing
    with
    1910-1914
    Increase
    Russia and France
    to expand
    in Defense
    their armies Expenditures

    France 1880 1914


    10%
    Germany
    Britain 1.3m 5.0m
    13%
    France
    0.73m 4.0m 39%
    Russia
    Russia
    0.40m 1.2m 73%
    Germany

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR


    ALLIANCES
    By 1914 all the
    major powers
    were linked by a
    system of
    alliances.
    The alliances
    made it more
    likely that a war
    would start.
    Once started, the
    alliances made it
    more likely to
    spread.

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR


    IMPERIALISM

    All the great powers were competing for colonies / territory.


    The British feared Germany in Africa.
    The Austrians feared Serbia / Russia in the Balkans

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR


    NATIONALISM
    This was an age when all
    nations wanted to assert
    their power and
    independence.
    In Europe, Slavs, aided by
    Serbia and Russia, wanted
    to be free of Austrian rule.

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR


    THE SPARK

    Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his


    Wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg one hour
    before their deaths, June 28, 1914
    GavriloPrincip

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    Short term timeline leading to World War I


    June 28 - Assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke
    and heir, Francis Ferdinand (and Sophie, his wife)
    July 23 - Austria issues ultimatum to Serbia and
    invades on July 27
    July 28-30 - Russians mobilize as Serbias ally
    August 1 - Germany, Austria-Hungarys ally, declares
    war on Russia (and Serbia)
    August 3 - Germany declares war on France (allied
    with Russia) and invades Belgium en route to Paris,
    France
    August 4 - Great Britain, Frances ally, declares war
    on Germany

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR


    TERRITORIAL EXTENSION

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR


    NEW WEAPONS AND TACTICS

    MACHINE GUNS

    POISON GAS

    FLAME THROWERS

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR


    NEW WEAPONS AND TACTICS

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR


    NEW WEAPONS AND TACTICS

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR


    NEW WEAPONS AND TACTICS

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR


    TOTAL WARFARE
    POPULATION SUFFERED FROM AIR RAIDS

    WOMEN REPLACED MEN IN THE FACTORIES

    FOOD
    ENTIRE
    WEAPONS
    WASECONOMY
    RATIONED
    PRODUCTION
    INVOLVED
    FOR THE
    PRIORITY
    TROOPS

    MANDATORY CONSCRIPTION OF ALL MEN

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR

    THE FIRST WORLD WAR


    PARIS CONFERENCE AND TREATY OF VERSAILLES
    I918 Woodrow
    Wilson issued the
    Fourteen Points
    document
    containing
    foundations for
    future peace
    Paris Peace Conference (1919)
    Allies determine terms for
    defeated countries. The five
    treaties included economic
    sanctions, territorial
    concessions, and reduction of
    armies

    Treaty of Versailles was


    especially hard on Germany
    blamed for war, abandon
    all colonies, return Alsace
    and Lorraine to France,
    reduce army, pay
    reparations

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    New countries and borders


    appeared: Poland, Austria, Hungary,
    Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Finland,
    Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

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