Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Causes of WWI
Anmerkungen:
- • an acronym to remember for the causes of WWI : MAIN
- Militarism
- Alliances
- Imperialism
- Nationalism
- Militarism
- military power is viewed as
national prestige
- glorification of war
- social Darwinism
- William II envies the British
navy and begins building his
own
- arms race b/w Great Britain
& Germany
- family rivalries: influential
military leaders
- Alliances
- decline of Bismarkian alliances
- Russia agrees w/ Slavic
states
- Allies
- Great
Britain
- France
- Russia
- United States (joins later)
- Central Powers
- Germany
- Austria-Hungary
- Ottoman Empire
- Japan (joins
later)
- Imperialism
- Great Britain increasingly
becomes concerned with
Germany
- competition for colonies
- economic rivalries b/w Great Britain,
Germany, France
- Britain and France desire to
contain German territorial claims
in Africa
- Nationalism
- France wants revenge
against Germany
- France wants Alsace-Lorainne
(territory) back
- Germany's pride in their
military power rises
- pan-Slavism in Eastern Europe
- Serbian desire to create a
Southern Slavic state
- Serbia wants to unite Slavs in
the Balkans
- Serbia becomes a new country - strong
nationalism