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WORLD WAR I: CAUSES AND ALLIANCES, belligrances, weaponary, image, image,…

- - - - discuss conflicts
        
        no international organisation
      - protect its interests
        
        seeking alliances
  - - - rearmament of states
      - diplomatic initiatives
      - imperialist ambitions
    - - deadly weapons
      - industrial manufacturing
  - - - few colonies
      - at a disadvantage relative to
        
        France
        
        Great Britain
    - - Europe’s main power
        
        industrial
        
        economic
      - claimed its own colonial territories
      - start of the 20th century
  - - - machine guns
      - tanks and armoured vehicles
      - German Zeppelins and airships
      - lethal mustard gas
        
        killed people
        
        left the environment polluted
    - - German company Junkers
      - 1915: first metal aeroplane
  - - - fought for independence
      - Kingdom of Serbia
        
        rival of Austria-Hungary
        
        supported by Russia
    - - Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)
      - during German unification
- - - - because rivalry with Austro-Hungarian Empire
  - - - 1917: United States entered
      - Romania (1916) and Greece (1917) joined
      - Belgium, Serbia and Montenegro
        
        invaded by Germany and Austria-Hungary
        
        suffered greatly
      - 1914: Japan declared war on Germany
        
        imperialist ambitions in Asia and the Pacific
        
        goal: seize German concessions
        
        in China
        
        the Pacific islands