World War 1 recap

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This lesson contains 27 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 1 video.

Lesson duration is: 90 min

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The armed peace

Europe around 1900 was peaceful and prosperous, but...

The major countries were building up large armies

Industrialisation and imperialism drove competition

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Industrialisation

Railways

Telegraphs

Mass production

Assembly lines

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Industrialisation

Bicycles, cars, trains. People moved around quicker and more

Newspapers

Growing lower class, social unrests

Child labour, slums, poverty, disease

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Nationalism

Creating a national identity

Alternative to religious or class identity

Common language, culture, history

Superiority belief

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Nationalism

1848: revolution year

France, Germany, Italy...

The Netherlands?

The answer to further revolutions was nationalism

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Imperialism

Evolution of 17th century trade-colonialism

European powers created overseas empires

Scramble for Africa

Large areas of seemingly useless land

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Why the desire for large colonial empires?

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Imperialism

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Imperialism

Large colonies provided new markets for industrial products

Large colonies gave national prestige

Social darwinism. Prison colonies for 'undesirables'

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Imperialism

Germany is late to the colonial party

'place under the sun'

Jealousy and amnity between the colonial powers

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Grievances

France resents Germany for the war of 1870

Germany resents Britain and France for their colonies

Britain and Germany get into naval arms race

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Alliances

Triple entente: France, Russia, and Britain

Central powers: Germany, Austro-Hungary, Ottoman empire

Why?

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Assassination

June 28th 1914:
Austro-Hungarian archduke and heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand, is shot dead in Sarajevo by a Bosnian Serb
Why?

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Modern warfare

Machineguns

Barbed wire

Poison gas

Planes

Tanks

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World War 1 recap

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