Remember how nothing was the same after the Industrial Revolution? The world was truly a different place? Well, that took place over 100+ years. The Great War (WWI) will do all of that in 5 years. This is such a major conflict involving so many moving parts. If you’re a history nerd like, me this one is so much fun. WARNING: This is AP World, not AP World War. Don’t get bogged down here. I know… it’s archdukes and drive-bys and ultimatums and Schileffens….I know… But, don’t linger here. Know the order of how things went down here. Know how the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s assassination brought the world to war. Then, off to the war itself in the next section.

1. CENTRAL POWERS
2. TRIPLE ENTENTE
3. MILITARISM
4. NATIONALISM
5. BLACK HAND

1. CAUSES OF WWI, HEIMLER’S HISTORY

2. CRASH COURSE EUROPEAN HISTORY: “THE ROADS TO WAR”

3. (A BRIEFER VERSION OF THE ABOVE) CRASH COURSE “HOW WWI BEGAN”

4. THE FINAL DAYS OF GAVRILO PRINCIP

1. SOME DAMNED FOOLISH THING IN THE BALKANS, Otto von Bismarck, 1898
2. THE SCHLIEFFEN PLAN, 1906, German Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen (German plan to invade France through Belgium)
3. OATH OF THE BLACK HAND, 1914 (Oath used by new members of the Terrorist gang)
4. JULY ULTIMATUM, 1914
5. UK DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY, Aug 4, 1914

1. “AGREEMENT” Russian poster showing France, Russia, and Britain (the Triple Entente) (1914)

2. LEADERS OF THE CENTRAL POWERS (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottomans, Bulgaria), (PRE-1918)

3. FRONT PAGE OF AN ITALIAN NEWSPAPER, Depicting the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, (1914)

4. STATUE OF GAVRILO PRINCIP, Park Gavrilo Princip, Belgrade, Serbia

5. LONDON & PARIS ON THE DAY WAR WAS DECLARED, August 4 1914

1. Europe was what Otto von Bismarck called a “powder keg” ready to explode.
2. Years of militarism built up armies with untested killing abilities.
3. Alliances amongst the major European powers insured a conflict amongst any of the nations would be a conflict amongst all of the nations.
4. Imperial conflicts and scrambles around the world fueled animosity and the arms race prior to the war.
5. Nationalism rose in multi-national Empires like the Austro-Hungarian empires leading to the assassination of the heir to the Austrian throne by Serbian terrorist, Gavrilo Princip