AP World History: Modern / Unit 7: Global Conflict (c. 1900–present)
7.2 Causes of World War I
Notes
MAIN: militarism, alliances (Triple Entente vs Triple Alliance), imperialism, nationalism. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914) set it off.
Practice
The immediate cause of WWI:
Sarajevo, 1914.
The alliance system made WWI larger because:
Chain reaction.
Militarism means:
Arms race.
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