1. What Caused the First World War?

2. Nationalism
France
England
• rivalries among nations to be the best
• militarism
• collapsing empires Austria-Hungary
• bad blood between nations (FR & GR, A/H &
RUS, A/H & Serbia)
Germany Russian Empire Serbia

3. The Balkan Powder Keg
• competition for control of the Balkans

4. The Spark
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s visit to Bosnia
• the Black Hand (Gavrilo Princip)
• did Serbia know?!?
• Austria-Hungary’s demands
• mobilizations

5. The War Starts--1914
• Austria Hungary invades Serbia
• Schlieffen Plan
• two front war
• men were excited
• entangling alliances

6. Entangling Alliances
Triple Entente/ Triple Alliance/
Allied Powers Central Powers
• England • Austria-Hungary
• France • Germany
• Russia • Italy* (switches sides)
• Serbia • Ottoman Empire
• Belgium

7. Stalemate
• military “strategies”
• first industrial war
• trench warfare