WORLD WAR 1

THE

MAIN CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I

M - Militarism
A - Alliances
I - Imperialism
N - Nationalism

MILITARISM

Military Power
Keeping a large army that is always ready for war.
Arms race for military technology

ALLIANCES

Alliances Countries that agree to work with each other and have

each others backs; such as, friends.

IMPERIALISM

European competition for colonies

Search for colonies would sometimes lead to small wars
Led to rivalries and mistrust amongst the counties.
Did not know who you could trust and who was not in it for your land or

money.

NATIONALISM

Strong Dedication to ones nation

Competition and rivalry would develop between European nations

for colonies and markets.

HOW LONG WILL THE WAR LAST?

1914-1918

JUNE 28TH 1914

The shot heard around the world.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand would travel to Sarajevo
and would be assassinated along with his pregnant
wife.

FRANZ FERDINAND VIDEO

http://

www.history.com/this-day-in-history/archduke
-franz-ferdinand-assassinated

THE FACTS ABOUT FRANZ FERDINAND

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the Archduke of Austria-

Hungary
On June 28th; which was also Ferdinands wedding
anniversary, him and his pregnant wife Sophie traveled to
Sarajevo in an open car.

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A Serbian Nationalist and member of the Black Hand

terrorist group threw a bomb at their car.

It hit their car but it bounced off and wounded a security
guard.
Later that day another member of the Black Hand
terrorist group was right next to their car and fired into it
with a gun hitting Franz Ferdinand and Sophie.

HOW WOULD THE WAR START?

Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

Why?
Serbian terrorist group just assassinated their Archduke and his

pregnant wife.

Alliances will start to form!

ALLIANCES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE WAR!!!

Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
Russia will declare war on Austria-Hungary since they are friends

with Serbia.
Germany will declare war on Russia since Germany is friends with
Austria-Hungary.
France will jump in and joins with Russia since they have an alliance.
Germany will declare war on France.
England will Declare war on Germany and Austria Hungary after
Germany crosses into Belgium after being warned not to since they
are neutral.
England has an alliance with Belgium

ALLIANCES
Triple Alliance

TRIPLE ENTENTE

Germany

England

Austria-Hungary

France

Italy

Russia

Serbia

TECHNOLOGY GAME

WHAT IS THAT?????

Lets see who can figure out what each picture is!!!
First team gets a prize!

CAMERA MAN

Up until 1916, taking photographs on the front line

was banned in case they helped the enemy to find

out secrets.
From 1916, British official photographers were
appointed by the army to take photographs and
moving film on the front line.

TANK

 Britain used tanks in battle for the first time on 15

September 1916.
By the summer of 1918 they were commonly used on the
front line. Britain produced around 2,600 tanks during
World War One.

SIGNAL FOR MORSES CODE

A man, or group of men, would be based at a

signal post close to the front line. They would use a

light signal; a light or mirror which was held up to
send messages in Morse code back to base. The
men operating signaling posts would watch the
battle and report what they saw.

AIRPLANE

 Airplanes were very recent inventions when World War

One broke out. As aircraft technology developed, planes

became very important to the war. France only had 140
aircraft when war began but by the end of it, they had
used around 4,500.

SUBMARINE

 Conflicts which took place on the sea were known as naval

battles.
These mainly took place in the North Sea (between Great
Britain and the rest of Western Europe) and the Atlantic.
There were also battles in the Black Sea, Baltic Sea and
the Mediterranean Sea.

PISTOL

The pistol was a small hand-held gun.

They were strong and powerful weapons. Unlike

rifles, pistols were compact and suited the

cramped conditions found in trenches, tanks and
planes.

FIELD GUN

 Field guns fired shells that exploded when they hit

something. They were large and complicated weapons

to operate. They could fire shells as far as seven
kilometers and had to be placed on a flat surface. It was
often difficult to find a good position for the guns
because the battle field was uneven and muddy. Each
field gun needed a team of between four and six men to
operate them.

SHRAPNEL SHELLS & GRENADES

 Shrapnel shells contained lots of little bits of metal or

bullets which were fired out at great speed when the shell
burst. Shrapnel could inflict great damage to people,
animals and equipment.
Grenades (a small bomb thrown by hand) were used to
clear dug-outs and were also thrown into trenches. Most
grenades had a delay of five or five-and-a-half seconds
before they exploded.

GAS MASK / POISONOUS GAS

 Poisonous gas was used as a weapon in WW1.

Gas could affect a person's sight and breathing in just a

few minutes so protective masks were given to all soldiers.

As shown in the photograph, many working horses and
mules also wore gas masks. These were specially designed
for them during the war.

TELEPHONE

 This was a telephone used by soldiers to communicate

between trenches. It had a keypad for tapping out Morse

code and a handset. Trench phones also had a second
earpiece so another soldier could listen to the
conversation

RIFLE

Almost every soldier had his own rifle.

It could fire 15 rounds in under a minute and reach a target over a
1,000 meters away. Sometimes a bayonet (a sword-like blade) was
fixed to rifles and used for one-on-one fighting. Some soldiers also
used their bayonet to open tin cans and scrape mud off their boots.

MACHINE GUN

 Machine guns were very big and heavy and needed up to

six people to operate them. They were placed all along the
Western Front.
Machine guns fired up to 600 bullets in a minute and were
very dangerous. Many soldiers dreaded the enemy
soldiers who operated machine guns more than anyone
else.

TRENCH WARFARE

 Trench warfare,warfare in which opposing armed forces attack,

counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of

trenches dug into the ground. The opposing systems of trenches are
usually close to one another. Trench warfare is resorted to when the
superior firepower of thedefensecompels the opposing forces to
dig in so extensively as to sacrifice their mobility in order to gain
protection. Trenches started before the American Civil War (18611865), but did not reach its peak until World War I (1914-1918).

WHEN WAS THAT INVENTED?

Put the technology in order of which one was

used first in World War I.

First team to get it gets a prize

1. Rifle (15th Century)

2. Grenade (1540)
3. Submarine (1580)
4. Pistol (16th Century)
5. Trench Warfare
6. Morse Code (1836)
7. Camera (1860)
8. Telephone (1860)
9. Machine Gun (1884)
10. Tank (1904)
11. Plane (1904)
12. Field Gun (1914)
13. Poisonous Gas (1917)

WHICH DO YOU THINK TECHNOLOGIES WERE MOST USED?

IF YOU WERE FIGHTING IN THE WAR WHICH WOULD YOU

WANT TO HAVE / USE??? YOU CAN ONLY CHOOSE ONE!!!

WHICH INVENTION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT TO THE WAR?

WHAT KINDS OF WEAPONS / TECHNOLOGY WILL BE USED?

Trench Warfare
Machine Guns
Poison Gas
Submarine
Airplane
Tank

WHY WILL THESE WEAPONS BE USED NOW?

Industrial Revolution!!!!

HOW WILL THESE NEW TECHNOLOGIES CHANGE WAR?

More Dangerous
More places to fight
More areas to conquer?
Oceans
Air Space

COMBAT DURING THE WAR