World War I

IMMEDIATE CAUSE: ASSASSINATION OF FRANZ FERDINAND
In June 1914, a Serbian-nationalist terrorist group called the Black Hand sent groups to assassinate him.
Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip shot him and his wife while they were driving through Sarajevo.

IMPERIALISM
Increases their power and wealth
Bringing additional territories under their control
An increase in confrontation

NATIONALISM
The desire of the Slavic peoples be part of Austria-Hungary.
Nationalistic and ethnic revolt led directly to the assassination of Ferdinand

THE INFLUENSES OF THE WAR ON UK.
It became known as the Great War because it affected people all over the world (and Great Britain, of course) and was the biggest war anyone had ever known.
It even came to be known as 'the war to end all wars', as no conflict before World War I had caused destruction on this scale before. People wanted to believe that nobody would ever want to go to war again after it.

THE RESULTS OF INFLUENCE:
The End of Empire.
Economic problems
Feminization of the work
Votes for Women
Class Mobility
Medicine