CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I

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CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I
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MILITARISM

• A nations policy to maintain strong armed forces
• Great Britain and Germany raced to have the
  largest navies.
• France, Russia, and Germany competed in building
  powerful armies.

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ALLIANCES

• The formation of military agreements among
  nations.
• Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed the
  Triple Alliance in 1882.
• Great Britain, France, and Russia formed the
  Triple Entente in 1907.

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IMPERIALISM

• A nations attempt to gain control of weaker
  nations.
• European nations divided much of Africa into
  colonies in order to obtain raw material and sell
  goods
• European nations forced China to grant them
  trading rights

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NATIONALISM

• Extreme loyalty to a nation and concern for its
  welfare.
• National groups in Austria-Hungary and the
  Ottoman Empire (Turkey) wanted independence.
• European nations sought to regain lost
  territories and/or add land.

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Assassination

• Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary was
  assassinated and Serbia was blamed.