The Great War

• Great war aka WWI
• The four main causes:

  • M - military
  • A - alliances
  • I - imperialism
  • N - nationalism
• Military

  • Industrialism increased military power
• Alliances

  • Triple alliance
  • Italy, Austria, Germany
  • Italy did not end up supporting Germany
  • Triple Entente
  • France
  • Great Britain
  • Russia
• Imperialism

  • power + wealth
  • fight for Africa because of ersources
• Nationalism

  • Strong sense of pride of their nation or ethnic group
• Archduke Ferdinand of AH assasinated in Bosnia which sparked the war because AH declared war against Serbia

  • Alliances proceeded to back up and WWI started