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Imperialism and WWI (THE FIRST WORLD WAR (Causes of the war (Alsace…
Imperialism and WWI
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Great War
1914-1918
European countries
African and Asia colonies
United States
Japan
China
Latin American republics
Causes of the war
Armed peace
control of the Balkans
Alsace-Lorraine
control of the colonies
supremacy of its merchant navy
Pre-was atmosphere
influenced public opinion
in favour of war
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
assassinated in Sarajevo
28 July 1914
Austro-Hungarian Empire
declared war on Serbia
Alliances durimg the WWI
based on their own interests and pre-existing alliances
The Allies
Italy
The Central Powers
Phases of the war
Initial German offensives (1914)
Schlieffen Plan
invading Belgium
France was defeated
fight the Russians
German plan did not succeed
Trench warfare (1915–16)
both sides focused on defending their positions
using new weapons
continually attacking the same place
Incorporation and withdrawal of allies (1917)
United States decided to join
revolution in the Russian Empire
The end of the war and the Armistice (1918)
help of the American troops
Exhaustion and an ever-increasing lack of resources
War economy
military equipment
shortages
Rationing was introduced
black market
Society during the war
conscripted or recruited
were allowed to do jobs in
economic sectors that had
previously only been done by
men,conscripted or recruited
Peace settlement
Paris Peace Conference
Fourteen Points
rejected by the Allied countries
Five separate treaties
Germany
Consequences of the war
Decrease in population
Destruction of the cities
Incorporation of women
Loss of Europe's economic power
A new map of Europe
CAUSES IMPERIAL EXPANSION
finance capitalism
rapid industrial development
COLONIES
cheap raw materials
provided by
colonies
new markets
provided by
colonies
IMPERIALISM
birth of the modern world
1870-1914
colonisation
consumer society
tense international relations
late 19th-early 20th centuries
developed countries
took control
lands
became colonies
formed part
various colonial empires
regions
The Colonial Empires
US
Japan
European countries
Areas of
Asia
Oceania
Africa
Largest Colonial Empires
France
Great Britain
POLITICS: TENSION IN EUROPE
no armed conflicts
production of arms
Germany's
Bismarck
alliances
Wilhelm II
expansionist period
CONSEQUENCES OF IMPERIALISM
colonies
imposed European culture
racial segregation was common
second class status
rivalry
imbalanced world economy