Causes of World War

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Long Term Causes

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• armies France & Germany had more than doubled

• competition btwn UK & Germany for the seas

• UK intro 'Dreadnought', an effective battleship

http://www.pvhs.chicousd.org/teachers/BethBurton/album/world_history/LeviathanGrandMap.jpg

http://www.cix.co.uk/~dliddlea/timeguns/dreadnought.jpg

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• Comparative figures on army increase, 1870-1914:

1870 1914 • Russia 700,000 1,300,000• France 380,000 846,000• Germany 403,000 812,000 • Austria-Hungary 247,000 424,000 • Britain 302,000 381,000• Italy 334,000 305,000• Japan 70,000 250,000• U.S.A. 37,000 98,000

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1879The Dual Alliance

                                      

 Germany and Austria-

Hungary made an alliance to protect

themselves from Russia

1881Austro-Serbian

Alliance

                                    

Austria-Hungary made an alliance with Serbia to

stop Russia gaining control of Serbia

1882The Triple Alliance

                                      

  Germany and Austria-

Hungary made an alliance with Italy to stop

Italy from taking sides with Russia

1914Triple Entente (no separate peace)

                                    

Britain, Russia and France agreed not to

sign for peace separately.

                                

                                                      

1894Franco-Russian

Alliance

                                    

 Russia formed an alliance with France to protect herself against Germany and Austria-

Hungary

1907Triple Entente

                                      

  This was made between

Russia, France and Britain to counter the increasing threat from

Germany.

1907Anglo-Russian Entente

                                      

 This was an agreement

between Britain and Russia

1904Entente Cordiale

                                      

 This was an agreement, but not a formal alliance,

between France and Britain.

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Alliances

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Triple Entente• France, Russia, UK• Response to

German military build up

http://www.historiasiglo20.org/GLOS/images/tripleentente.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Triple_Entente.jpg

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Central Powers

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Germany, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Austro-Hungarian Empire

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•Lands 'owned' by Britain and France increased rivalry w/Germany

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• Italy in 1861 and Germany in 1871• Franco-Prussian war left France

angry w/loss of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany, want regain lost territory

• Areas of Austria-Hungary and Serbia home to differing nationalist groups, –Wanted freedom

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Short Term Causes

•“Spark”- Assassination

•Countries rush into war

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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

•Killer: Gavrilo Principhttp://techcenter.davidson.k12.nc.us/Group9/princip.jpghttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWassass2.jpg

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Countdown to World War• June 1914 Franz Duke Ferdinand, heir to

the Austrian throne assassinated• 28th July Austria Hungary declare war on

Serbia. France and Russia back Serbia• 30th July Britain and Russia mobilize

forces• 1st August Germany declares war on

Russia• 2nd August Germany invades Belgium,

declares war on France• 4th August Britain declares war on

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