World War 1 Flashcards
Immediate Catalyst to War
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo 6/28/1914
Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdidand
- Killed by a person who was part of a group of assassins who wanted to kill people in power in Austria
Nationalism
Identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations
The Ottoman Empire
“The Sick man of Europe” (meaning empire is dying)
- Controls south-eastern Europe into the middle east and parts of north Africa
- Ottoman had seen an erosion of their state
- Easter Question was a multinational empire like that of the Austrohungrarians
- Loss of Balkans and Greeks
Greece as a model
- Ottoman land begin to fall as the Greek state had
- Slaivc nationalisatiom on the rise “Pan Slavism”
- Austria- Hungary
Cause 2: Militarism
- Buildup of armanents for the national defense
- Coincided with the rapid development of new technology
- Tanks chemical weapons, flamethrowers, machine guns, U-Boats, and dreadnoughts
Cause 3: Imperialsm
The late 19th early 20th century saw countires tripping over themselves to gain land.
- Conflicts were bound to emerge
- Gemrany and Britian, Gemany and France were the most heated
Triple Alliance (1882)
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Italy
Alliance of 3 countires (didn’t catch the date)
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Russia
Alliances
- The system of interlocking relationships under which one country would go to war in defense of another
Central Powers (TA)
- Germany
-Austira-Hungary - Italy
Triple Entente
- Great Britian
-Russia
-France
Mutual Butchery
“The War will be over by Christmas”
- Slogans and optimism abound
- Battle on the Western Front
What casued the devestation of western
bomb
America Debates Nuetrality
- Isolationism the theme of the day- nation focused on its prgoressvie reformes… European affairs gained little attention
