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Unit 1 Review
- I know, we have had alot of review sheets already, but I hope this one will be more complete than the others.
- This one follows the review doc by Ms weatherall
Causes of WW1
There are 4 things (the MAIN) causes you need to understand why/how WW1 happened
First is militarism: the so called arms race. In
essence, two nations compete with each other about military technology,
who has the best weapons, quantity, etc. - eg. US makes atomic bomb,
Russia does the same - Basically who has the better army - This can lead
to war, or at least put tension on each other because if someone wins,
they can easily oblierate the other in a future war. - This race, as
explained above, is driven by the fear of the other country
becoming dominant and having military superiority.
Second is Alliance. The mentality is that well, if we
are equal in terms of individual strength, then I guess the side with my
support wins. Even if countries of the same military strength, a side
with more countries backing it up, will definetly have a huge advantage.
(Strength in numbers). Or maybe the country has weak military power, but
has someone with strong military power backign them up. (Similar to how
the Austrians got backed up by the Germans).
There were some Alliances made during/before WW1:
Triple Entente: Consists of Great Britain, France, and
Russia.
Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and
Austria-Hungary.
Similar to the arms race, once a country has a powerful enough force (either from arms or alliance), they can declare war on weaker countries and take them over, similar to the next point, imperalism.
Imperialism is pretty simple. A country expands and takes over other countries to become more powerful. - War can happen when countries try to prevent this from happening, or when competeting for territory if they also want to take over.
Nationalism: