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The Causes of World War One
The Causes of World War One

In this module you will learn:

1. FOUR new words
2. SIX factors which underlay the outbreak of the First World War [ANIMAL]
3. TWO rival alliances
4. SEVEN countries
5. EIGHT crises which preceded the war [BiG FaT BABA]
6. The story of the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
7. FOUR steps by which the murder of Franz Ferdinand led to the outbreak war [ARSE], including.
8. THIRTEEN key dates in the ‘slide to war’.

You must do the following written work:

• A cloze exercise on the Background to War
• FIVE explanations of how the five background factors made war easier.
• A cloze exercise on the Crises preceding the war.
• An analysis of the Crises pre-1914: Nationalism/ Imperialism/ Militarism/ Alliances
• A 200-word description of the murder of Franz Ferdinand.
• A cloze exercise on the Four Steps to War
• A description of the Schlieffen Plan
• An explanation of the slide to war, July-August 1914

Have you read:
• Ferriby and McCabe, Modern World History for AQA, sections 1.1 and 1.2
• Ben Walsh, Modern World History, Chapter 1
• Peter Moss, History Alive 4, chapter 2.
• Greg Hetherton, Britain and the Great War, section 2
• Christopher Culpin, Making History, chapter 2.
• LE Snellgrove, The Modern World since 1870, chapters 6-7.
• Tony Howarth, Twentieth Century History, Chapter 4.

Background to the War [ANIMAL]

We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun shall remain our undisputed possession, in order that the sun's rays may fall fruitfully upon our activity and trade in foreign parts... The more Germans go out upon the waters, whether it be in journeys across the ocean, or in the service of the battle flag, so much the better it will be for us.
A speech by Kaiser Wilhelm to the German Regatta Association, 1901. The argument which follows suggests that Europe in 1914 was RIPE for war to break out

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