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Recap

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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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