World history pres7

World War ICauses

Conduct

Consequences

Causes

• Nationalism----the pan-Slavic movements led to calls for the creation of separate states for various Slavic groups in Europe such as was the case of

• Imperialism—competition between nations to build up their economic and military capital.

• Militarism—growth of military machine in Germany, France, and England…an eventual powder keg for explosion

• Lack of international foreign body to handle differences and geopolitical issues

• Alliances• France and England and Russia (who had strong ethnic ties to Serbia)• Germany, Austria-Hungary• The Triple Alliance vs. The Triple Entente

• The assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian empire by a Serbian nationalist unhappy with how his Serbian minority members were being treated…

Orange = nations supporting Germany, Austria Hungary and Ottoman Empire

Green = nations supporting England, France, and Russia.

Conduct

• Use of technological advances

• Guns (machine guns, bayonets/rifles, pistols)• Tanks • Flame throwers• Airplanes—used more as messenger carriers• Gas warfare—mustard gas was a horrible weapon.

Barbequed your lungs if you breathed the stuff. The Germans used this quite effectively

• Trench warfare—brutal• Bombs (grenades and mortar rounds)

• A war of attrition. • Bad behavior towards the Americans and their ships from the

Germans—got us into the war!

Consequences

• Germany suffers economically through a staggering recession that ultimately causes a global recession (The Great Depression).

• The suffering of the German people lead them to pick politicians (including Adolf Hitler) to lead NAZI party.

• Racism and Creedalism (Religious-based bigotry—in this case against Jewish citizens (Anti-Semitism) of Germany and eventually all of Europe) as a means to promote nationalism amongst many German citizens

• Hitler launches imperialism crusade to unite Germans in other parts of Europe.

• Despite attempts at “appeasing” Hitler which showed the weakness of the League of Nations.

• World War II starts

Consequences, pt. 2

• Japan following in Hitler’s footsteps over in Asia. Find a common denominator with Hitler despite his racist views with a not-too-fond attitude over the U.S.A.

• Japan angry over U.S. boycotting their goods and also blocking their assets as a protest to Japanese aggression towards China in other Asian nations.

• Pearl Harbor—Dec. 7, 1941 (US in war now…no more isolationism for USA now or ever)

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki = nuclear attacked and Japan surrenders

• The Holocaust of 6 million Jews and other peoples• United Nations and the formation of new nations such as

Pakistan and Israel…what’s happening over there right now?