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1.	What were the factors that produced WWI?

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1.	What were the factors that produced WWI?

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Causes of World War I
• Alliances that divided Europe into competing camps
• Nationalistic feelings
• Diplomatic failures
• Imperialism
• Competition over colonies
• Militarism

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2. What were the major events of thewar? 

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2. What were the major events of thewar? 

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Major events
• Assassination of Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand
• United States enters the war
• Russia leaves the war

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Major leaders
• Woodrow Wilson
• Kaiser Wilhelm II

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4. What were the outcomes and globaleffects of World War I? 

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4. What were the outcomes and globaleffects of World War I? 

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Outcomes and global effect
• Colonies’ participation in the war, which increased demands for independence
• End of the Russian Imperial, Ottoman, German, and Austro-Hungarian empires • Enormous cost of the war in lives, property, and social disruption

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5. What were the terms of the Treaty ofVersailles? 

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5. What were the terms of the Treaty ofVersailles? 

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Treaty of Versailles
• Forced Germany to accept responsibility for war and loss of territory and to pay reparations
• Limited the German military
• League of Nations

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6. Why did Russia erupt in revolutionwhile fighting in World War I? 

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6. Why did Russia erupt in revolutionwhile fighting in World War I? 

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Causes of 1917 revolutions
• Defeat in war with Japan in 1905
• Landless peasantry
• Incompetence of Tsar Nicholas II
• Military defeats and high casualties in World War I

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Rise of communism
• Bolshevik Revolution and civil war
• Vladimir Lenin’s New Economic Policy • Joseph Stalin, Lenin’s successor

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8. What was the League of Nations andwhy did it fail? 

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8. What was the League of Nations andwhy did it fail? 

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League of Nations
• International cooperative organization • Established to prevent future wars
• United States not a member
• Failure of League because it did not have power to enforce its decisions

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The mandate system
• During World War I, Great Britain and France agreed to divide large portions of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East between themselves.
• After the war, the “mandate system” gave Great Britain and France control over the lands that became Iraq, Transjordan, and Palestine (British controlled) and Syria and Lebanon (French controlled).
• The division of the Ottoman Empire through the mandate system planted the seeds for future conflicts in the Middle East.

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One-sided information designed to persuade, to keep up morale and support for the war

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Serbian terrorist group responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

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the policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war

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a list of demands that if not met, will lead to serious consequences

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an agreement to stop fighting