December, 2020 Established 1990 Price: Free WHY WAR? CAUSES ➢ Alliance system ➢ Weltpolitik – Germany and Wilhelm II ➢ Imperialism ➢ Nationalism ➢ Militarism and arms race ➢ International economy ➢ Increasing domestic tension due to growing social and economic indifferences CAUSES ➢ Franco-Prussian War 1870-71 ➢ War between Russia and the Ottoman Empire 1877-78 ➢ First Moroccan Crisis 1905 ➢ Bosnian Crisis 1908 ➢ Second Moroccan Crisis 1911 ➢ First Balkan War 1912 ➢ Second Balkan War 1913 CAUSES ➢ Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo ➢ The July Crisis ➢ Mobilization ➢ War Plans IB History This presentation is an attempt to increase your historical knowledge! … CAUSES OF WORLD WAR ONE WORLD WAR ONE - PRESENTATION
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December, 2020Established 1990 Price: Free
WHY WAR?CAUSES
➢ Alliance system
➢ Weltpolitik –
Germany and
Wilhelm II
➢ Imperialism
➢ Nationalism
➢ Militarism and arms
race
➢ International
economy
➢ Increasing domestic
tension due to
growing social and
economic
indifferences
CAUSES
➢ Franco-Prussian
War 1870-71
➢ War between Russia
and the Ottoman
Empire 1877-78
➢ First Moroccan
Crisis 1905
➢ Bosnian Crisis 1908
➢ Second Moroccan
Crisis 1911
➢ First Balkan War
1912
➢ Second Balkan War
1913
CAUSES
➢ Assassination of
Archduke Franz
Ferdinand and
his wife Sophie
in Sarajevo
➢ The July Crisis
➢ Mobilization
➢ War Plans
IB History
This presentation is an attempt to
increase your historical knowledge!
…
CAUSES OF WORLD WAR ONE
WORLD WAR ONE - PRESENTATION
TRIPLE
ALLIANCE➢ Germany
➢ Austria-Hungary
➢ Italy (declared
neutrality 1914 –
entered the war 1915 –
as an ally to the
Entente)
TRIPLE
ENTENTE➢ France
➢ Great Britain
➢ Russia (up to 1917)
SOME
NEUTRAL
NATIONS•Italy (up to 1915)
•USA (up to April 1917)
•Netherlands
•Spain
•Switzerland
•Sweden
•Norway
•Denmark
THE WAR
BREAKS OUT
Austria-Hungary declared
war against Serbia July
20th 1914. A week later
Germany had declared
war against both Russia
and France and Great
Britain had declared war
against Germany.
WORLD WAR ONE
had started!
ALLIES
•Bulgaria
•Ottoman Empire
(Turkey)
EUROPE YEAR 1914
ALLIES
•Serbia
•Belgium
•Greece
•Romania
•Portugal
•Montenegro
•Japan
•China
•Italy (1915)
•USA (1917)
FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR 1870-71
Napoleon III and Otto von Bismarck
PROPAGANDA FOR A FRENCH
ALSACE-LORRAINE AFTER 1871
BISMARCK’S
ALLIANCE SYSTEM
He wanted to protect the unified Germany! How?
1. Isolate France!
2. Power balance – at least to Great Powers should be allied to
Germany
3. The alliance between Russia and Austria-Hungary should not
be too strained or too ”friendly”…
BISMARCK’S MOST IMPORTANT ALLIANCES
• 1873 Dreikaiserbund (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia). This alliance collapsed at the