THE GREAT WAR27.1 MARCHING TOWARDS WAR

WORLD HISTORY TWOMR. HOOD`S NOTES31 JANUARY 2014

MAIN IDEA

POWER AND AUTHORITY.

IN EUROPE, MILITARY BUILDUP, NATIONALISTIC FEELINGS, AND RIVAL ALLIANCES SET THE STAGE FOR A CONTINENTAL WAR.

WHY IT MATTERS NOW

THE GREAT WAR HAD FAR-REACHING CONSEQUENCES THAT RESOUNDED ACROSS THE GLOBE AND SHAPED THE MODERN WORLD.

INTRODUCTION

BEGINNING OF THE 1900s EUROPE WAS AT

PEACE

BUT SOON A MASSIVE WAR WOULD ENGULF

EUROPE

+ WAR WOULD SPREAD ACROSS

THE GLOBE

OBJECTIVE 1IDENTIFY THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY FORCES AT

WORK IN EUROPE IN THE LATE 1800s.

THERE WERE 3 DARK

FORCES AT WORK IN EUROPE

THESE FORCES WOULD LEAD EUROPE

INTO WAR

1 - NATIONALISM

NATIONALISM: A DEEP DEVOTION TO

ONE`S NATION

NATIONALISM CAUSED INTENSE COMPETITION

AMONG NATIONS

EACH COUNTRY SEEKING TO OVERPOWER THE

OTHER

FIERCE RIVALRIES DEVELOPED

+ ALLIANCES FORMED

2 -IMPERIALIS

M

IMPERIALISM: A STRONG NATION SEEKS TO DOMINATE A WEAKER

COUNTRY

EUROPE COMPETED FIERCELY FOR OVERSEAS

COLONIES

A COLONY IS LAND CONTROLLED BY

ANOTHER NATION

EUROPE THOUGHT THE

BIGGER THE EMPIRE THE BETTER

3 - MILITARISM

MILITARISM: GLORIFYING MILITARY

POWER

EUROPEAN NATIONS BELIEVED THAT

TO BE TRULY GREAT…

…THEY NEEDED A STRONG STANDING

ARMY

IMPORTANCE ON BEING READY TO MOBILIZE FOR WAR

CONCLUSION

DARK FORCES PUSHED COUNTRIES

TO BRING OF WAR

RIVALRY AND MISTRUST OF ONE ANOTHER

DEEPENED

OBJECTIVE 1IDENTIFY THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY FORCES AT

WORK IN EUROPE IN THE LATE 1800s.