World War I Begins

1. What are the four main causes of World War I? Give an example for each as to why it was a cause.
Militarism because the European counties all wanted to keep even with eachother in the ammount of weapons. The alliance sysytem because there became two different rival alliances. Imperialism because every country wanted more land and nationalism because they all thought they were the best country.


2. How did the June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand become the spark for WWI?
Because Austria declared war on Serbia and a chain reaction occured and all the countries became in war with eachother.


3. What happened within the first few months of fighting?
Everyones plans went wrong, especially the German's.


4. Generally, why did the United States want to stay out of the war?
To save their children from warfare and to set an example of peace to the world.


5. Specifically, Why did the following groups of Americans tend to oppose U.S. participation in the war? Naturalized citizens; socialists; pacifists; parents.
parents didn't want their children to die at war. pacifists wanted to have peace. Socialists said it was imperialiistic between Britain and Germany over Africa and China. Citizens didn't want to interupt trading.


6. How did Germany respond to the British naval blockade of Germany’s ports? What was the U.S. response?
The Germans said they would sink all U.S. ships going to Britain and U..S. responded by joining the war.


7. What forced the United States into the war?
So Germans would stop sinkig their ships.