7.2

• every major event in the 20th century has direct or indirect connections to WW1

WW1 causes

• the MAIN causes

  • militarism

  • alliances

  • imperialism

  • nationalism

• militarism: the desire of a state to develop and maintain a powerful military in order to aggressively advance their own interests.

  • britain and germany had invested huge sums of money into bulking up their militaries

    • had heavy recruitment, built up navies and developed new weapons

  • the massive stockpiling of weapons was brought by the industrial revolution

• alliances: an agreement between two states for mutual self-defense.

  • tension between military powers → secret alliances formed

• imperialism: an arrangement in which one country brings another country under it’s political/economic dominion

  • bitter rivalries developed between powers bc of the fight for colonial expansion (think unit 6)

• nationalism: a strong identification with one’s own nation and people, often to the exclusion of other people.

• frederick passy in 1895 low-key predicted ww1

• june 28th 1914 - franz ferdinand assasinated

  • austria-hungary declared war on serbia → germany came to austria-hungary’s aid → russia came to aid serbia → germany declares war on russia + france → britian declares war on germany → austria declares war on russia