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World War I Alliances and New Weapons

Learn about the causes of World War I, key alliances, the Schlieffen Plan, trench warfare, and the introduction of new weapons like tanks and airplanes. Explore the impact of the war on nations and the significance of major battles.

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World War I Alliances and New Weapons

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  1. Chapter 18, Sections 1 & 2 World War I

  2. -Nationalism a.) new nations form (Italy & Germany-1870s) b.) competition for power -Imperialism -Militarism -SchlieffenPlan -rifles v. machine guns -Alliances Causes of War

  3. France Italy Germany Serbia Russia England Austria-Hungary

  4. -a plan to prevent a war for Germany on two separate fronts Assumed: -Russia would take at least 6 weeks to mobilize -France would be easily defeated in 6 weeks -Belgium would not resist any German attack -Britain would remain neutral Schlieffen plan

  5. Triple AllianceTriple Entente -Germany -France -Austria-Hungary -Russia -Italy -Great Britain Pre-War Alliances -To decrease chances of war -balance of power

  6. GavriloPrincip Archduke Ferdinand

  7. Central PowersAllied Powers -Germany -France -Austria-Hungary -Russia -Ottoman Empire -England -Italy!!! WWI Alliances

  8. Adriatic Sea

  9. -Schlieffen Plan -Aug. 4, 1914- attacks neutral country of Belgium in order to get to France -Great Britain declares war on Germany -new kind of warfare Germany attacks

  10. -Germans were 25 miles from Paris -French counterattack along Marne River- Sept. 7, 1914 -French push the Germans back 40 miles -5 days; 250,000 lives lost The 1st Battle of the marne

  11. Significance of Battle

  12. -trench warfare -no-man’s land -p.587 -life in the trenches Stalemate in the war

  13. -needed to end stalemate -Germans: chemical warfare -English & French follow New weapons

  14. -Tanks -Artillery -Airplanes -trench warfare continues! New Weapons

  15. http://www.loc.gov/vets/ http://www.loc.gov/vets/

  16. -isolationism -but leaned toward the Allied Cause -Woodrow Wilson America as isolationists

  17. -Unrestricted warfare -Sussex -Sussex Pledge German U-boats

  18. -Wilson re-elected -”peace without victory” -Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare -U.S. ends diplomatic relations with Germany Peace W/o victory

  19. -called for an alliance between Mexico and Germany -goal was to tie up American forces in the Western Hemisphere -intercepted/decoded by British -Wilson refuses to wage war Zimmerman note

  20. -March 1917- German U-boats sink 3 American merchant vessels -America declares war on Germany on April 6, 1917 Final breaking point

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