• 12/16 Focus: – Advances in weaponry, from improvements to the machine gun and airplane, to the invention of the tank and the use of poison gas, led WWI to be an enormously destructive war between industrialized nations . • Important Terms: – Trench Warfare, Stalemate, Attrition • Do Now: – What were the four primary causes of WWI?
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• 12/16 Focus: – Advances in weaponry, from improvements
to the machine gun and airplane, to the invention of the tank and the use of poison gas, led WWI to be an enormously destructive war between industrialized nations .
• Important Terms: – Trench Warfare, Stalemate, Attrition
• Do Now:– What were the four primary causes of
WWI?
World War I
An Industrialized War
The Balkan Powder Keg• Serbian nationalists
wanted to unite Serbs in the Balkans– Create a Slavic state– Austria-Hungary
opposed this effort
• Austria- Hungary annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina – Large number of Serbs – Angered Serbian
nationalists
The Spark
MilitarismAlliances
Imperialism Nationalism
June, 28, 1914: Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, Assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hungary in Sarajevo
The Powder Keg
Boom
Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family
Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family
The Assassination: Sarajevo
The Assassination: Sarajevo
The Assassin: The Assassin:
GavriloPrincipGavriloPrincip
THE ALLIANCE SYSTEM TRIGGERED
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Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
Russia mobilizes army to the border with A-H
Germany declares war on Russia
Germany declares war on France
Great Britain declares war on Germany
Outbreak of WarAustria-Hungary blames Serbia for death of Archduke and makes harsh demands
Serbia refused to comply with demands
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia (July 28 1914)
Russia moves troops to border with Austria and Germany
Germany declares war on Russia
Germany declares war on France
Germany invades Belgium as part of plan to invade France (August 3, 1914)