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WORLD WAR I: CAUSES AND ALLIANCES, japan, balkan, usa, austro-hungary,…
WORLD WAR I: CAUSES AND ALLIANCES
CAUSES OF THE CONFLICT
Nationalist rivalries
hostilities between the industrial power
Germany
France
the lost of alsace-Lorraine
tension in the Balkans
gain independence
expand their states
Imperialist ambitions
bigger colonizers
France
Great Britain
Germany
less colonies
second German Empire
main industrial and economic power
20th century
claimed colonial territories
An aggressive diplomacy
alliances
to protect their interests
no international organisation
Armed Peace
The arms race
rivalry
imperialist ambitions
diplomatic initiatives
prepare for war
rearmament of states
new arms
more deadly
technological and industrial progress
the Great war
in 1914
after the second Industrial revolution
great economic prosperity
weaponry
technological advances in the weapons
most devastating conflict
aviation
metal aeroplane
inventions
machine guns
tanks
armoured vehicles
German Zeppelins and airships
mustard gas
killed people
polluted
THE ALLIANCES
diplomatic agreements
two blocks of alliances
heirs of the Bismarckian system
The triple alliance
1882
Germany
Italy
Austria-Hungary
1914
Italy abandoned
because its rivalry with Austria-Hungary
the Ottoman Empire joined
1915
Bulgaria joined
the Triple Entente
1907
the colonial empires of
Russia
France
Great Britain
once the war started
Italy joined
other countries
invaded by Germany and Austria-Hungary
Belgium
Serbia
Montenegro
The United States
1917
played a decisive role
Balkan Front
Romania
1916
Greece
1917
Japan
declared war on Germany
1914
due to its imperialist ambitions
its goal
seize German concessions
in China
the Pacific island
from Spain 1898
