Causes of World War One 1900–1914

      

   

Contents:

  1. Background

  2. The Growing Crisis

  3. Four Steps to War

  4. Self-test

   

Plus:

  1. Revision sheet

  2. Hard-copy booklet

  

   

AQA KEY QUESTIONS and SYLLABUS CONTENT:  

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Why did tension increase in Europe between 1900 and 1914?

  
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Why did the assassination at Sarajevo lead to the outbreak of war in 1914?

     

  

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The alliance system and the Arms race;

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Moroccan Crises of 1905 and 1911;

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Bosnian Crisis 1908-9. 

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Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary and the Serbs;

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 the Schlieffen Plan;

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events leading to the outbreak of war.

       

 

Links:

The Causes of World War One - Views of historians

  

 

Blackadder on the causes of World War One

  

- BBC debate-podcast on why war broke out

- Giles Hill's podcast on the long-term causes of the war

- Giles Hill's podcast on the outbreak of the war

- quirky view

 

Map of Europe in 1914

  

Good notes + activities: recommended

More notes 

Brilliant overview from wikipedia

Reed Brett on the Causes of the War

Prof Rempel on the Causes

  

Interactive lesson - really good once you think you have got the basic idea

  

BBC site - by Gary Sheffield

  

Blackadder on the Causes of World War One - can you understand the humour?

  

This site looks at the coming of war from Britain's point of view

 

This thread on the History Help forum looks at how you can blame almost everyone and everyone for starting the war!

Two essays, one arguing that militarism, the other that nationalism was to blame

Nebojsa Malic argues simply and effectively that Serbia was not to blame, but that Austria and Germany wanted war.

Gerhard Rempel and Raffael Scheck claim that Germany was to blame - very difficult  

Steven Sowards sees the War as developing out of the situation in the Balkans - again, very difficult

  

Mr Punch's History of the Great War - first published in 1919; includes lots of cartoons

   

In this module you will learn:  

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The tensions in Europe which led to war [ANIMAL].

bullet    The 8 crises of 1900-1914 [BiG FaT BABA]
bullet    The 4 steps to war, July-August 1914 [ARSE]