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IMPERIALISM AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR
IMPERIALISM
economic, political and cultural control of a nation
over other territories
COUNTRIES WITH MANY TERRITORIES
Germany
Belgium
France
Great Britain
The Netherlands
U.S.
Japan
CAUSES
DEMGRAPHIC
Population increased
Illnes eradicated from undeveloped countries
ECONOMIC
Natural resources and raw material
Cheap workforce
New markets
POLITICAL
Prestige
Expanding territories
Nationalism
Military and comercial basis
strategic location
SCIENTIFIC AND
GEOGRAPHIC
Discovering new territories
Better knowledge of the world
IDEOLOGICAL
AND CULTURAL`
Racial superiority
Civilize underdeveloped
Expanding Christianism
Imposing European culture
CONSEQUENCES
DEMOGRAPHIC
METROPOLI
Less unemployment
COLONIES
More population
Lower mortality and high natality
ECONOMIC
METROPOLI
Cheap raw materials
Goof for the economy
COLONIES
Explotation of natural resources and workforce
POLITICAL
METROPOLI
Rivalries between European contries
FIRST WORLD WAR
COLONIES
Dependece
Not prepared to establish democratic governments
Nationalism
SCIENTIFIC AND
GEOGRAPHIC
METROPOLI
Good for the metropoli
COLONIES
Medical advances
Division of territories without taking into account cultural differences
IDEOLOGICAL
AND CULTURAL
METROPOLI
Process of acculturation
COLONIES
Missions lower rates of illiteracy
Segregation
Expanding their culture
FIRST WORLD WAR
CAUSES
Austro-Hungarian Empire
and Russian Empire
control of the Balkans
And Serbia, angry, because expansion of AH Empire
France and Germany
France wanted to recover Alsance-Lorraine
Competed for control of the colonies and economic expansion
Great Britain
Supremacy of its merchant navy threatened
German Empire gaines economic power
Armed Peace
Pre-war atmosphere
European powers spent on arms and be prepared for he war
Archuduke Franz Ferdinand
assassinated and this was assigned to Serbia and war was declared
ALLIANCES
CENTRAL POWERS
Austro-Hungarian Empire
German Empire
Ottoman Empire
ALLIES
Triple Entente
France
Great Britain
Russian Empire
Serbia
PHASES
INITIAL GERMAN OFFENSIVES (1914)
Germany = Schlieffen Plan
Attack first to France and the Russia
Didn't succeed
TRENCH WARFARE (1915/16)
Built trenches to defend their positions
Battleships and submarines were used
INCORPORATION AND WITHDRAWAL
OF ALLIES (1917)
U.S.A. joined to the war with the Allies
political and social revolution in the Russian Empire
WAR ECONOMY
industrial sector
food = for the trenches
clothes = military uniforms
metallurgy = weapons
deceased production
agricultural and consumer goods
RATIONING CARDS
government control the distribution of base goods
WAR SOCIETY
young men
armed forces and war
women
first time were allowed to work
start fighting for their rights
vote
work
PEACE SETTLEMNT
PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE
Allies decided the peace conditions imposed to defeated countries
WiILSON
Fourteen Points
creating League of Nations
rejected by the Allied countries
5 separate treaties
GERMANY
Treaty of Versailles
prohibition of heavy artillery, planes and submarines
payment huge economic reparations
reduction of its territories
Alsace-Lorraine given back to France
demilitarisation of the region
division of its eastern territories
CONSEQUENCES
decrease of the population
20 million people died
European countries lost their economic power
loans to the U.S.
U.S. became word's leading economic power
NEW MAP OF EUROPE
AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE
Austria
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
RUSSIAN EMPIRE
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Finland
Poland
GERMAN EMPIRE
German Republic
OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Turkey
Lebanon
Jordan
Syria
Iraq
Arabia and Palestine
ITALY
received Trieste from Austro-Hungarian Empire
lost some territory to Yugoslavia