WWI Distance Learning 2020

When countries felt they were outgunned by a rival they would team up with their Homies for this Main Cause. It later drug many countries into a conflict that maybe shouldn't have been there fight.

• Alliances
• Nationalism

This ism caused the major Industrial/European powers to bump into each other in Africa and around the world as they expanded the countries which they influenced militarily or diplomatically.

• Imperialism
• Militarism

This ism would have us all stand at attention as a show of pride in our way of life over others. Our country/ethnicity is so great that we should be independent from your empire or we should dominate your little country. "Our team is better than your team mentality."

• Nationalism
• Alliances

Militarism, Nationalism, and internal dissent led to this event in 1914 which sparked WWI

• Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by Gavrilo Princip of the Black Hand
• Assassination of JFK

Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Ottoman Empire

• Central Powers
• Allied Powers

France, Russia, Great Britain and later the U.S.

• Allied Powers
• Central Powers

Schlieffen Plan had German soldiers marching through neutral Belgium which drug this country into the war.

• Great Britain
• France

What was Germany's plan to avoid a possible war on two fronts?

• Schlieffen Plan
• Blitzkrieg

When the Schlieffen plan failed what type of fighting ensued?

• Trench Warfare, Stalemate, War of Attrition - Note all of these are possible answers.
• All out war

Trench warfare that kept both sides in the same positions for four years was located on this front

• Western Front- in Europe mostly in France.
• Eastern Front in Russia