Push/Pull Factors
Push Factors
What are things that cause people to leave or relocate from the country they live in?
Americans gained control of this nation because American sugar growers overthrew its rightful government.
What is Hawaii?
Militarism
What is a policy of building up strong armed forces (military) to prepare for war?
Militarism
What is fuelled a competition between two or more countries to see who can build up their military and resources by increasing defense spending and a rise to new military technology such as machine guns, tanks, etc?
Triple Alliance
What is Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
Pull Factors
What are things that attract people to come or move to a country?
Americans supported a rebellion in this country until it achieved its freedom, then fought a war against the country in order to take it over.
What is the Phillipines?
Nationalism
What is Hyper-patriotic feeling, an intense form of patriotism or loyalty to one’s country, extreme pride in one’s nation; superiority?
Nationalism
What is exaggerated the importance or virtues of their home country placing interests above those of their nations. Combined with militarism, the feeling they were prepared and willing to go to war (willing to fight and die for one’s country)?
Triple Entente
What is France, Russia, and England
Examples of Push Factors
What are war, famine (huge shortage of food), lack of opportunity in home country, persecution of religion, ethnicity, and political differences?
America gained ownership of this Caribbean island after the Spanish American War.
What is Cuba?
Imperialism/Industrialization
What is international competition for land, resources, and power and mechanization of weapons with the ability to mass produce tools for war?
Imperialism/Industrialization
What is the international competition for land, resources, and powers had been in place before the war and continues throughout. Many countries owned several territories, which they brought to war with them as nations got closer to war.
In 1917, the U.S. mobilized for war and joined this side.
What are the Allied Powers?
Examples of Pull Factors
What are land of opportunity, land of freedom (religion, jobs, education, land)?
This land purchase was initially thought to have been a massive waste of money, but turned out to be rich in natural resources.
What is Alaska?
Alliances
What are public and private promises to defend allies?
Alliances
What is the allies support one another in case of an attack. So, when a crisis involving one member of an alliance occurs, it impacts all countries in the alliance. This means one minor incident could spark a major conflict.
*This country was blamed for WW1.
What is Germany?
*"Roads are paved with gold"
What is a pull factor?
America helped this Central American country rebel against its European colonial owner.
What is Panama?
The Spark
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by a Serbian man?
The Spark
Led to alliances joining the conflict and war to defend their allies and leading to world war.
At the start of the war the U.S. remained this
What is neutral?