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- blue= allied powers Great Britain (and the British Empire), France, and the Russian Empire
- Direct Causes
- Bonjour! Je m 'appelle Jaques. I live in France and fought in World War I. I was 16 at the time. I will be sharing my experience of being a teenager who was drafted to fight in the war.
- red= central powers Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire
- 1915
- Nationalism=Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
- You will need to be familiar with the term nationalism
- V.S
- Let's start from the beginning. Tensions in Europe were high. As British and French expansionism continued, tensions rose between opposing empires, including Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.
- 1915-1916
- Now were going to look at indirect causes of WWI. The M.A.I.N causes shown on the chalkboard did not directly start WWI but, helped guide the world slowly move towards World War I.
- M.ilitarism- An arms race between two or more nationsA.lliances-The teaming up of groups agaisnt other groupsI.mperialism-Taking over land by forceN.ationalism-You aleady know this one
- Indirect Causes
- The spark that set off World War One was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, on June 28th, 1914, by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist. Exactly a month later, Austria declared war on Serbia. There were growing fears that the war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia will quickly escalate into a much greater conflict, which it did.
- We now enter in the Ottoman Empire in1915, the year the first Armenian Genocide begins. Turkish military leaders began to argue that the Armenians were traitors: If they thought they could win independence if the Allies were victorious, this argument went, the Armenians would be eager to fight for the enemy. Therefore removal actions of all Armenians began.
- Genocide: The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group
- The Turkish are invading us!
- From spring 1915 through autumn 1916 there were approximately 1.5 million Armenians living in the multiethnic Ottoman Empire. At least 664,000 and possibly as many as 1.2 million died during the genocide, either in massacres and individual killings, or from systematic ill treatment, exposure, and starvation.
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