This document provides an overview of the causes of World War 1. It discusses both long-term causes like the arms race, territorial disputes between countries, and the formation of military alliances, as well as short-term causes like the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which directly led to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia and starting a chain reaction that engulfed Europe in war. The document also summarizes some key events of the war like the entry of the US in 1917 and Russia leaving the war, as well as the Treaty of Versailles that ended the war and placed blame and reparations on Germany.

1. SOFÍA MONTOYA & ALINA CLAPS
1- Re-read the article.
2- create a Doc in google drive.
3- Look up the info you don't know.
eg. ‘Tratado de Versalles’
4- Find sources to illustrate what you know.
5- write your own article to publish in your blog.
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-Los cuatro actos conmemorativos de los que se apresta Europa.
-Porque la contienda resultó inevitable
-Tratado de Versalles
-Fascismo
- Guillermo II
- Guerra de trincheras
-Georges Clemenceau
-Los catorce puntos
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Gavrilo Princip
Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie
Triple Entente and Triple Alliance:

2. The Great War
There are many articles and books we can find when we want to know about “War World I”. We may know
everything that happened during the war, we may know the
number of soldiers and civilians that were killed, or the
countries that formed an alliance to protect each other or we
may know which were the countries that disappeared at the
end of this war. But we may not know all know the causes of
it.
This war didn’t start only because of political differences or
racism or differences of religions.
There are many reasons why this war started and they are
divided into long term and short term causes, because of the
time.
France wanted to get back the rich industrial area of Alsace­Lorraine which was taken from her in 1870 by
Germany. In 1890 the German Kaiser ordered the building of a large navy which made Great Britain and
other countries feel insecure and threatened because of its growing power, Germany was also worried about
the encirclement of France and Russia, who both had reason to attack. The arms race between countries to
see how had a vaster and better trained army was also very important because it made countries act in a
desperate way to prove their strength . In 1914 different ethnic groups wanted to separate from the rest of the
Austrian­Hungarian empire and have their own independent country and. The Emperor of Austria­Hungary
was concerned about how to keep his fragmented empire united.
But the final straw which made this “Great War” start was the assassination
of Franz Ferdinand in 1914 by Gavrilo Princip sented by the
Austria­Hungarian empire to kill him and then blamed it on Serbia. When
Austria­Hungary empire blamed Serbia for the death of Franz Ferdinand
sented and ultimatum and when this one was not responded Austria declared
war to Serbia.

3. This was a trenches war.And from December 1019 to 1918 neither country could making a “winning move”,
better known as stalemate. The reasons were simple. The techniques and the weapons were better positioned
to defend than to attack. This was because barbed wire, trenches, mud and machine guns made cavalry and
infantry impossible.
1917 was an important year to the war because Russian lefted the war and USA got in. USA declared war on
Germany in April 1st 1917 because the Germans had attacked and destroy many american ships which they
suspected of carrying supplies to the Allies. They also sank passenger ships, the Lusitania, killing many
American civilians. But when the USA discovered that Germany hoped to ally Mexico against them it was the
final straw. Russia on the other hand had a revolution which brought in a communist government and it had
made peace with Germany.
After the war ended, 1918, Woodrow Wilson, back in the day president of
the USA, believed that nations should cooperate to achieve world peace.
And published in January of that same year his Fourteen Points to help
achieve this. The most important point for Wilson was number fourteenth
in which he proposed the setting up of an international body called the
League of Nations. And there is also the Treaty of Versailles written
down by the Big Three where it said that Germany had to take full
responsibility for starting the war. She would have to pay for all the
damages caused by the war. Her colonies became mandates controlled
by the League of Nations. And restricted German armed forces to a
level well below to what they had been before war.
So we think that this war a combination of causes which lead countries to war. All countries had issues with
others and some of them were not as important as other issues, that meant more to some countries than
others, and it was the accumulation of small problems that lead to bigger issues which made “The Great War”
start.

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­Alina Claps and Sofia Montoya
There has been no progress from last class. What happened? Completing points 1, 2 & 3 was
HOMEWORK!
Lenny. (May 5th)