THE GREAT WAR BEGINS 11-1

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THE GREAT WAR BEGINS 11-1

• WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
• 1914-1920

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State Standard 10.5

• Students analyze the causes and course of the
  First World War.

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• World War I Causes
• Nationalism
• Great Power Rivalries
• Balkan Nationalism
• Deterioration of Austrian and Ottoman Empires

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Interlocking Alliances

• The Triple Alliance
• Germany
• Austria
• Italy
• The Triple Entente
• France
• Britain
• Russia

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• German Militarism
• Legacy of the Junkers
• Internal conflict of Germany
• Modern state with Medieval government

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• An Arms Race
• Imperialist challenges
• Fashoda
• Sudan
• Morocco
• German Naval Expansion

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• Crisis in the Balkans
• Competition between Russia and Austria for
  dominance
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated by the
  Black Hand

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• The Two Sides
• Central Powers
• Germany
• Austro-Hungary
• Ottoman Empire
• Italy( for a while)

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• The Allies
• Britain
• France
• Russia
• Serbia
• U.S.( in 1917 )

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• War on Two Fronts
• The Western Front
• Schlieffen plan-defeat France first
• Germans stopped at the Marne River
• Italy refuses to join Central Powers

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• Eastern Front
• Russian vs. German
• Germans stop Russians at Tannenberg
  Forest
• Horrific Russian losses

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