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DEEP DEVOTION TO ONE’S COUNTRY
NATIONALISM
THE QUEST FOR COLONIES
IMPERIALISM
GLORIFYING THE MILITARY, ALWAYS READY FOR WAR, ARMS RACE
MILITARISM
TRIPLE ALLIANCE, TRIPLE ENTENTE, THE PURPOSE
ALLIANCE SYSTEM
ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND
BY SERBIAN “BLACK HAND” MEMBER GAVRILO PRINCIP
KAISER WILHELM
GERMAN MONARCH
CSAR NICHOLAS II
RUSSIAN MONARCH
FRANZ JOSEF
AUSTRIAN MONARCH
WOODROW WILSON
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN ( U.K.)
GEORGE CLEMANCEAU
PRIME MINISTER OF FRANCE
1914-1918
WWI DATES
GET THE MILITARY READY FOR WAR
MOBILIZATION
NEUTRALITY IS THE POLICY/ ISOLATIONISM
USA
GREAT BRITAIN DECLARES WAR
PROTECT BELGIUM
ALLIES
Tripple Entente
MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON OF WW1
MACHINE GUNS
USED MOSTLY FOR RECONNAISSANCE, SOME DOGFIGHTS, LIMITED BOMBING
AIRPLANES
CHLORINE AND MUSTARD GAS USED BY BOTH SIDES
POISON GAS
USED EFFECTIVELY BY BOTH SIDES
SUBMARINES
BECOME A FACTOR IN LATE 1917 AND 1918 FOR ALLIES
TANKS
GREAT BRITAIN & GERMANY
NAVAL RIVALRY
GERMAN PLAN TO WIN WW1 QUICKLY.
SCHLIEFFEN PLAN
A DRAW. NO SIDE IS WINNING
STALEMATE