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.

Militarism- the major powers of Europe began increasing the stockpile of weapons, they also began to creat more powerful wepons (WMD'S)

2. How did the June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand become the spark for WWI?

Because the assain happened to be Serbian and the Austrian-Hungary empire wanted to take over Serbia they decided it was a good enough excuse to go to war.

3. What happened within the first few months of fighting?

Within the first few months of fighting there were thousands of soilders on all sides dead from the WMDS.

4. Generally, why did the United States want to stay out of the war?

The United States wanted to stay out of the war because they wanted to show that they could be peaceful, some immergrants had close ties with the countries that were at war so the US didnt want there to be fighting at home and the parents of the soliders didnt not want their children to see the horrors of war, let alone be fighting in it.

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 didnt want the U.S to go to war because they still had close ties with the countries that were involved whether on one side of america or another.
Socialists followed the war closely because they thought that the war was a captial and imperilaist struggle was between England and germany to gain control of markets in china.
the Pacifists thought that the war was evil and america should make an example by being peaceful. parents didnt want their boys to see the horrors of war.

6. How did Germany respond to the British naval blockade of Germany’s ports? What was the U.S. response?

Germany was not able to get food or fertilzer to grow food, so a lot of people died of starvation. the U.S was not happy with this because they couldnt get their goods to the germans and they didnt like that the british let so many people die.

7. What forced the United States into the war?
Germany said that they would use U boats to sink all boats in british waters wether hostile or not. The Zimmermann note came next trying to turn Mexico against the Us, and then The germans sunk 4 unarmed US merchant ships.