WWI Causes

Remember MANIA

Militarism 

Alliances 

Nationalism 

Imperialism 

Assassination 

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Militarism 

• Things can be solved by war. ("Might makes right") 

• Arms Race: building weapons (ex: ships, tanks, guns, etc.) to have more than another country. 

Alliances 

• Treaties (secret agreements) between countries, generally to defend them when others threaten war. 

• Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary 

  Triple Entente: France, Russia, Great Britian 

European countries almost went to war with each other because they were trying to take each other’s territories around the world

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Pride in one's own nation or culture & support for its interests. 

• Nationalism 

• Imperialism 

Assassination 

• Archduke Francis Ferdinand visited Sarajevo, Bosnia – a territory in Austria-Hungary home to many Serbians & Slavic people. 

  Serbian nationalists were angered by the visit. 

• A member of the terrorist group, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated the Archduke and his wife. 

  Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. Russia declares war on Austria-Hungary. 

Start of War 

• Excuse everyone had been waiting for

  Assassination was June 28, 1914

  By August 3rd, all major countries of Europe, except Italy, at war.

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