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Causes of WW1
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Awful governments
Nationalism Imperialism Militarism Assassination of Archduke FF List of events |
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Awful Governments
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Autocracies
Corrupt governments War= gained territory+power |
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Nationalism
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Britain, Germany, France more war-like. French politicians (Clemenceau and Poincare) hated the Germans
It made dependent countries want independence |
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Imperialism
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countries would try to conquer countries with "lesser" ethnic groups.
This led to clashes between imperialist powers |
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Militarism
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trained all young men so they could call trained reservists if need be
Germany 8.5 million men Russia 4.4 million men France 3.5 million men Austria-Hungary 3 million men everytime one countries army grows, there was an armed race- Germany had the best army but Russia's wwas growing the fastest. |
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Alliances
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1894- France and Russia
1904-Entente Cordiale France and Britain-agreement 1907-Britain, Russia, France- Triple Entente 1902-Britain and Japan- naval treaty triple entente alarmed germany, which felt itself surrounded by the france-russia alliance |
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List of Events
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long-term background tensions that the countries were pushed into war
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Four steps into war
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Austria declares war
Russia mobilises Schlieffen Plan England joins in |
