WWI, the MAIN long-term causes

Who’s it for: This lesson was designed for Year 9 pupils who were examining the causation of WWI. Last lesson (also on TES), pupils examined the short-term causes of WWI. This time pupils examine the long-term causes. The next lesson after this bring everything together into one lesson,
What’s included: 1 lesson PowerPoint
The class reading resources come from the following textbooks (not attached due to copyright reasons):
Re-discovering the Twentieth Century World, pp. 4-7.
Modern Minds, The twentieth-century world, pp. 8-9.
Why it’s useful: This lesson improves the ability of pupils to understand causation by examining the causes of WWI through a long-term perspective as well as a short-term perspective. In this lesson, pupils are also introduced to the important historical concepts of nationalism, imperialism, militarism and alliances
Learning objectives:
To understand the MAIN (militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism) long-term causes of WWI
To examine the extent to which WWI was inevitable in consideration of the tensions within Europe before WWI started.