Causes of the War -Lots of Instability Nationalism Old Empires Old Style Gov’ts Alliance System.

Causes of the War

-Lots of Instability

Nationalism

Old Empires

Old Style Gov’ts

Alliance System

Alliances

-Led to an arms race

-Triple Alliance

(Central Powers)

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

-Triple Entente

(Allies)

France, Britain, Russia

Strategy

-War starts

Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

-Alliances cause chain reaction to Austria-Hungary’s attack on Serbia after the assassination

Strategy

-War develops into trench warfare after initial German advance failed to defeat France

-Germany wants to defeat Russia first if faced with two front war

-Allies want to force fighting on two fronts and get help from U.S.

U.S. Neutrality

-U.S. declares neutrality in the war

-develops sympathy for the Allied cause

-Begins to export war materials

-Submarine warfare begins

-Wilson wins 1916 election on slogan “He kept us out of war!”

-isolationist policy

Stalemate

-War quickly reaches a stalemate

-Trench warfare

Over the Top

No Man’s Land

-New Type of War

new technology

submarines

airplanes

horrible weapons

poison gas

-mustard gas

U.S. Enters War

-U.S. continues to export war materials

-German u-boats sink any ships they find

Lusitania sinks, 1915

Sussex Pledge

U.S. Enters War

-Wilson wins 1916 election

calls for peace

-Zimmerman Note

Attempt to get Mexico involved in war vs. U.S.

Causes of the War -Lots of Instability Nationalism Old Empires Old Style Gov’ts Alliance System.

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