Causes of wwi (The Great War) I. Europe’s Control over World

Causes of WWI (The Great War)

I. Europe’s Control over World

• 2nd half of 19th c. Europe

• a)

• b)

• c)

• Why was Europe so powerful?

• a)

• b)

• c)

• d)

• This situation creates tension among major European Powers

II. Causes of WWI

• M

• A

• I

• N

• Short vs Long term causes:

III. Long Term Causes

• New Imperialism (approx 1870-1914)

• Definition: Est econ & pol control over

• Refer to the Maps you are to complete: Imperialism in Africa & Asia

IV. Motives for Imperialism

• Economic –

• a) J.A. Hobson

• b) Industrial colonization

• c) “spheres of influence”

• Political Reasons

• a)

• b)

• c)

• d)

• Justifications for Imperialism

• a)

• b)

• c)

V. Scramble for Africa

• Berlin Conference

• a) Britain

• b) France

• c) Belgium, Portugal, Spain & Italy

• d) Germany & Bismarck

VI. China

• U.S. & “open-door policy”

• Militarism

• 1.

• 2.

• Nationalism

• 1.

• Pan-Slavism

• Serbia

• Russia

• 1st Balkan War (1912)

• 2nd Balkan War (1913)

X. Entangling Alliances

• Bismarck

• Worried about

• Did NOT want

• Created a

Bismarck’s Alliances

• Bismarck

• Three Emperor’s League (1873)

• Dual Alliance (1879)

• 2nd Three Emperor’s League (1881)

• Triple Alliance (1882)

• Reinsurance Treaty (1887)

• Post Bismarck

• Reinsurance Treaty Lapses

• Franco-Russian Treaty (1894)

• Entente Cordial (1904)

• Triple Entente (1907)

X. Bismarck’s Alliances

• Three Emperor’s League (1873) b/t

• Falls apart b/c

• Treaty of San Stefano

• Congress of Berlin – Goal =

• a) results

• 1)

• 2)

• Dual Alliance (1879) b/t

• a)

• b)

• c)

• 2nd Three Emperors League

• a) Bismarck was right =

• b) promised to

• Triple Alliance (1882) b/t

• a) Italy worried

• b) a defensive alliance directed against

• Reinsurance Treaty b/t

• a) created after

• b) Both sides would remain neutral if

• c) BUT…it begins to unravel when

• William II (Wilhelm II)

• a)

• b) wanted

• c) wanted

• d) fired

• e) Leo von Caprivi

• f) Bismarck’s complex system

XI. Franco-Russian Alliance (1894)

• Caprivi refused

• Russia felt

• Britain

• The impossible happened…

XII. Entente Cordial

• With this Britain had abandoned

• Not a formal

• Settled all

• Britain felt

XIII. First Moroccan Crisis

• William II’s speech in Tangiers

• Will calls for a conference and

• Germany’s bullying drew

XIV. Triple Entente (1907)

• Between

• Britain concerned with

• It is now the Triple Alliance vs. the

• Triple Entente

XV. Short-term Cause

• Assassination of

• “Black-Hand” member

• Sarajevo