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.
a. Nationalism: Russain vs Austria-Hungry for the Serbs

b. Imperialism: Germany, Britian, and France all fighting for colonies

c. Militarism: Britian vs Germany vs the rest of the world to build up good navies

d. The Formation of groups of alliances: The Triple Entente= France, Britian, and Russian, The Triple Alliance= Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungry

2. How did the June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand become the spark for WWI?
The Austiran-Hungry Empire thought it was a good idea to crush Serbia because they killed the archduke and then Russia got involved and then the alliances made all the other nations choose a side and fight.

3. What happened within the first few months of fighting?
After the first couple of months of fighting the fighting slowed down and eventually became trench warfare.

4. Generally, why did the United States want to stay out of the war?
The people's loyalty were divided because of the fact that they all came from different countries.

5. Specifically, Why did the following groups of Americans tend to oppose U.S. participation in the war? Naturalized citizens; socialists; pacifists; parents.
Naturalized citizens didn't want to go to war because they might fight their own country of origin. Socialists called the war a battle of imperialism between Britian and Germany like for Asia and they didn't want a part of it. Pacifists don't like war so they didn't want to go. Parents didn't want to send there boys to fight and die because that's not what they were raised for.

6. How did Germany respond to the British naval blockade of Germany’s ports? What was the U.S. response?
Germany attacked allied or British ships near Britian and sunk them. America got really angry when Germany attacked a ocean liner and they started to hate the germans.

7. What forced the United States into the war?
The germans said they would attack any and every ship near Britian on sight. They attacked U.S merchant ships and America wanted it's revenge so it went to war.