29.1 MARCHING TOWARD WAR

WORLD HISTORYMR. HOOD`S NOTESNOVEMBER 2014

MAIN IDEA

POWER AND AUTHORITY.

IN EUROPE, MILITARY BUILDUP, NATIONALISTIC FEELINGS, AND RIVAL ALLIANCES SET THE STAGE FOR A CONTINENTAL WAR.

WHY IT MATTERS NOW

ETHNIC CONFLICT IN THE BALKAN REGION, WHICH HELPED START THE WAR, CONTINUED TO ERUPT IN THAT AREA IN THE 1990s.

INTRODUCTION

EUROPEAN NATIONS HAD LARGELY BEEN AT

PEACE

SOON A MASSIVE WAR WOULD ENGULF

EUROPE

+ WOULD SPREAD ACROSS

THE GLOBE

OBJECTIVE 1IDENTIFY THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY FORCES AT

WORK IN EUROPE IN THE LATE 1800s.

1900s: EUROPE AT PEACE

BUT DARK FORCES AT WORK

DARK FORCES WOULD PROPEL THE CONTINENT

INTO WAR

1. NATIONALISM

NATIONALISM: A DEEP DEVOTION TO

ONE`S NATION

CAUSED INTENSE

COMPETITION AMONG NATIONS

EACH SEEKING TO OVERPOWER THE

OTHER

FIERCE RIVALRIES DEVELOPED

FIGHTING OVER RAW MATERIALS AND

MARKETS

AND FIGHTING OVER TERRITORIAL

CONTROL

2. IMPERIALIS

M

EUROPE COMPETED

FIERCELY FOR COLONIES

PUSHED COUNTRIES TO BRINK OF WAR

RIVALRY AND MISTRUST OF ONE ANOTHER

DEEPENED

3. MILITARISM

RISE OF DANGEROUS ARMS

RACE

NATIONS BELIEVED TO BE TRULY

GREAT…

…THEY NEEDED A POWERFUL

MILITARY

IMPORTANCE ON BEING READY TO MOBILIZE FOR WAR

OBJECTIVE 2LIST THE COUNTRIES THAT

MADE UP THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE AND THE TRIPLE

ENTENTE.

RIVALRIES + MISTRUST

LED TO MILITARY ALLIANCES

AN ALLIANCE IS A TREATY OF

FRIENDSHIP

ALLIANCE SYSTEM DESIGNED

TO KEEP PEACE

TRIPLE ALLIANCE

GERMANY + AUSTRIA-HUNGARY + ITALY

TRIPLE ENTENTE

GREAT BRITAIN + FRANCE + RUSSIA

A DISPUTE BETWEEN TWO RIVAL

POWERS…

…COULD DRAW ALL

NATIONS OF EUROPE INTO WAR

OBJECTIVE 3SUMMARIZE THE EVENTS

THAT SET WORLD WAR I IN MOTION.

PROBLEMS IN THE BALKANS

BALKANS: LOTS OF ETHNIC GROUPS

HISTORY OF NATIONALIST UPRISINGS

BALKANS KNOWN AS

“POWDERKEG OF EUROPE”

WHEN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY ANNEXED

BOSNIA

SERBIA WAS OUTRAGED

TENSIONS BETWEEN SERBIA + AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

GREW

ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND HEIR TO AUSTRIA-

HUNGARY THRONE

FUTURE KAISER FRANZ FERDINAND MADE STATE

VISIT TO BOSNIA

ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND ASSASINATED BY

GAVRILO PRINCIP

THE BLACK HAND

PRINCIP MEMBER OF

THE BLACK HAND

BLACK HAND: SECRET GROUP COMMITTED

TO…

…RIDDING BOSNIA OF

AUSTRIA-HUNGARIAN CONTROL

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY WAS OUTRAGED AT DEATH OF FRANZ

FERDINAND

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

DECLARED WAR ON SERBIA

BUT RUSSIA SUPPORTED THEIR SERBIAN FRIENDS

RUSSIA SENT TROOPS TO

AUSTRIAN-HUNGARIAN BORDER

EUROPE URGED AUSTRIA-

HUNGARY + RUSSIA TO NEGOTIATE

BUT IT WAS TOO LATE