A Serbian nationalist from the Black Hand group assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, Sophie. In response, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. This event marked the start of World War I.
SERBIA: wanted to seek revenge against those who had assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand
In 1871, Germany defeated France in the Franco-Prussian War and annexed the French regions of Alsace and Lorraine. In the early 1900s, France still wanted to regain these territories.
FRANCE; France still wanted to regain these territories.
1882 The leaders of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy signed an agreement promising to help one another if war broke out. Germany and Austria-Hungary shared borders and a common language, and both wanted to expand.
GERMANY: wanted to expand the nation’s territory in Europe
In the years before World War I, Germany sharply increased its military spending. It wanted to match Britain's naval power and gain dominance in Europe. German militarism and its rivalry with Britain and France was a major cause of the war.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: wanted to be an independent nation
Proponents claimed the acts were designed to protect the United States from alien citizens of enemy powers and to stop seditious attacks from weakening the government
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1- Jim Crow laws are laws that were made to legalize racial segregation
2- Changes in the constitution allowed African Americans freedom but after reconstruction laws were made to limit their freedom
3- Their lives changed in that they were no longer slaves and forced to labor but what stayed the same was the fact that they were still under oppression
4-Booker T. Washington proposed that economic progress would prove whites African Americans value and W.E.B Dubois believed you had to educate and fight.
