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World War I World War I and its and its
AftermathAftermath1914-1919
The Great War
Preface Otto von Bismarck wanted to be 1 of 3 of 5 This meant that he wanted to be 1 country
of a 3 country alliance out of the 5 powerful countries in the world
These countries were Germany, France, Great Britain, Austria-Hungary and Russia
He needed an alliance with two other countries to take over Europe
Alliance System For Bismarck, the most dangerous situation
would be fighting a two-front war For Germany, a natural alliance was Austria-
Hungary They shared culture, this was a natural alliance His better side was to look to Russia because
France hated him Russia was a divine right monarchy and so
was Germany
Alliance System Russia would not commit because of the
Balkans The alliance was Germany, Austria-
Hungary and Italy Germany had what was called a
reassurance policy with Russia If there was war, Germany should come
out in pretty good shape
Alliance System As we know, in 1890
Bismarck was dropped
Wilhelm II took over, he was not trained to rule
He use to have Admirals come to his yacht, put on tutu’s and dance for him
Alliance SystemHe did this
because he had power
He surrounded himself with people that would say yes to him
Germany One of these people
was Count Leo von Caprivi, he was a general in the German Army
Wilhelm thought that Germany needed a new treaty with Great Britain
Germany The problem was that Great Britain was
practicing “Splendid Isolation” They considered themselves above
European foreign policy They were an island that was surrounded
by their navy and no one would dare invade
Germany Germany thought that they could have
an alliance with Great Britain if they got rid of their treaty with Russia
Great Britain did not like Russia because they threatened India
Wilhelm had just opened up Germany to a two front war
In the meantime On July in 1891 Russia and France make a
military commitment to each other They will support each other as long as the
triple alliance is together If one of them gets attacked, the other will
come to their aid In August of 1899, France and Russia sign an
extension, it stated that they would mobilize if one of the alliance started moving against them
In the meantime Wilhelm II had successively joined
France and Russia Germany now wanted to know if there
was anything that they could do to make Great Britain drop its splendid isolation
Something important to remember is that Germany didn’t have a strong Navy
Germany ScramblesWilhelm wanted to exercise what he
called Weltpolitik (World Politics)Wilhelm directs his new pilots to
become a naval powerhouseGermany would build a fleet strong
enough so that Great Britain would not risk a war
Germany and Great Britain
At the same time Britain was functioning under what they considered a two power standard
They believed that their fleet would be stronger than the two strongest navy’s in the world
Germany adds sixty new war ships that would at least be able to match one third of the British fleet
Germany and Great Britain
Wilhelm believed that by threatening Great Britain, that Great Britain would have no choice but to join Germany
Great Britain didn’t see it that way In 1906, Great Britain introduced a new
type of ship called the Dreadnought This made all types of previous
battleships obsolete
Germany and Great Britain
There is one problem, If you have new technology, all of your competitors build what you have
By 1913 Great Britain had 20 Dreadnoughts and Germany had 13
Can Great Britain keep up its Splendid Isolation?
Great Britain needs Allies
No, they have to try to make an alliance with their enemies
Great Britain had been fighting with France for 500 years, since the time of Joan of Arc
Great Britain and France France had control over most of West
Africa and Great Britain had expanded its territory to the west going down
The upper Nile Valley is still up for grabs. France and Great Britain meet at Fashoda
The French General is John Baptiste Marchand, the British General is Herbert Kitchiener
Great Britain and France
Kitchiener demanded the retreat of Marchand
They wired home for ordersThe both peeled offBoth countries were having
problems elsewhere and couldn’t worry with this piece of land
Great Britain and France In 1904 Great Britain and France had signed
the Entente Cordiale (Friendly Understanding)
Great Britain and France had decided that they were going to end their differences
It is not a defensive alliance, but they were not going to fight each other
Wilhelm wants to prove that they could not survive together
Wilhelm’s Intervention He tells the Moroccans
that Germany will protect them from French aggression
He is directly insulting French National Honor
He can risk this because he thinks that Britain won’t stand up and that Russia is fighting wars with Japan
Wilhelm’s Intervention He is trying to drive them
apart and instead pushes them together
This is taken up at the Algeciras Conference in Spain
Morocco would be independent; Spanish police would patrol Morocco and France would control the bank
Wilhelm is humiliated
Slap in the Face Great Britain also forms an alliance with
Russia, They now become the Triple Entente or The Allies
The greater threat in the Middle East is no longer Russia, but is Germany
In 1904 we have Great Britain and France and the later Russia, this is the “Triple Entente”
German Problems Great Britain had abandoned its “Splendid
Isolation” There is a new balance of power in Europe The difference between this and
Bismarck’s views, is that now Germany would fight a two front war
Germany had committed themselves to Austria-Hungary and would not pull back
Alsace and Lorraine Nationalism was strong in both
Germany and France Germans were proud of their new
empire’s military power and industrial leadership
France longed to regain its position as Europe’s leading power
Alsace and LorraineThe French were still bitter about
their defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.
They especially resented German occupation of the border provinces Alsace and Lorraine
Pan-Slavism In Eastern Europe, Russia sponsored a
powerful form of nationalism called Pan-Slavism, all Slavic peoples shared a common nationality
As the largest Slavic country, Russia felt it had a duty to lead and defend all Slavs
By 1914, it stood ready to support Serbia, an ambitious, young Slavic nation, against any threat
Crisis in the Balkans Austria-Hungary was worried about a
rebellion among the many minority populations within its empire
Ottoman Turkey felt threatened by new nations on its borders, such as Serbia and Greece
Serbia was especially aggressive It dreamed of creating and ruling a South
Slav state
Crisis in the Balkans In 1912, several Balkan states
attacked TurkeyThe next year, they fought among
themselves over the spoils of warThese brief but bloody Balkan wars
raised tensions to a fever pitch
Crisis in the BalkansBy 1914 the Balkans were the
“Powder Keg of Europe”A tiny spark might lead to an
explosionAnd as we all know, the spark
struck in Europe with one event
Murder with Millions of Victims
On a spring night in 1914, a small group of revolutionaries sat at a café table in Belgrade, Serbia
They read an article that Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary would visit Sarajevo, the capital of neighboring Bosnia, on June 28
This caused outrage among the Serbians
Murder with Millions of Victims
June 28 was the date that Serbia had been conquered by The Ottoman Empire in 1389
On the same date in 1912, Serbia had finally freed itself from Turkish rule
They were still ruled by Austria-Hungary however
The Serbs felt that this was an insult to Serbian nationality
Murder with Millions of Victims
“Our decision was taken almost immediately”
“Death to the Tyrant” Among the Group was a nineteen year old
Gavrilo Princip His family were Serb farmers, having
grown up under Austrian rule, he felt he must take action against his oppressors
The Black Hand Princip joined
Unity or Death, a terrorist group commonly known as the Black Hand
This group was organized by Bosnian Serbs
The Black Hand They wanted a
single nation for all South Slavs
On June 28, Princip would be waiting on the streets of Sarajevo
The Victims June 28 was and
important date for Franz Ferdinand as well
Exactly 14 years earlier, he had married Countess Sophie Chotek
The Hapsburg royal family snubbed her
The Victims Archduke
Ferdinand took her with him to Sarajevo
He ignored all warnings of anti-Austrian unrest in Sarajevo
The Victims On the morning of June 28, Franz Ferdinand and
his wife drove down the streets of Sarajevo
The Victims There were seven
members of the Black Hand stationed along the route
Several carried crude bombs and pistols
The first two lost their nerve when the car passed
The Victims The third hurled his
bomb, missed the Archduke’s car and injured an officer in another car
After stopping to see what happened the royal couple went on with their day
The Victims Meanwhile, Princip
held to his plan He stayed near the
route that the motorcade would follow later that day
Leaving the Town Hall, Ferdinand wanted to go visit the injured officer
The Victims No one had told the
chauffeur to go to the hospital
When the driver stopped and reversed to go to the hospital, they stopped right in front of Princip
He seized his opportunity
The Victims Princip jumped
onto the car and fired two shots into the back seat
Guards pounced on him but it was too late
The Victims Ferdinand’s last
words were “Sophie, Sophie, please stay alive for our children”
a few minutes later they were both dead
The Punishment At his trial, Princip
stood by his deed His only regret, he
said, was killing a woman
Because he was under 20 he was not executed
The Punishment He died in prison of
tuberculosis in 1918 For Europe the
punishment was more severe
The archduke and his wife were the first victims of a war that killed millions
Peace Peace UnravelsUnravels
The beginning of World War I
Peace UnravelsNews of his nephew’s
assassination shocked the aging Austrian emperor, Francis Joseph
He blamed SerbiaAustria decided its only course
was to punish Serbia
A Harsh Ultimatum Austria sent Serbia an ultimatum They said that Serbia must end all anti-
Austrian agitation and punish any Serbian official involved in the murder plot
Serbia agreed to part of the deal As a result, Austria declared war on
Serbia on July 28, 1914
A Harsh Ultimatum People were looking at this to be the
makings of another “Summer War” Austria might not have pushed Serbia to
war if it had not been for the backing of Germany
Kaiser Wilhelm II was horrified at the assassination of a royal heir
A Harsh UltimatumHe advised Francis Joseph to take a
firm stand towards Serbia and assured him of German support
Serbia meanwhile sought help from Russia
Russia was, the champion of the Slavic nations
A Harsh Ultimatum Nicholas II,
telegraphed Wilhelm II The Czar asked the
Kaiser to urge Austria to soften its demands
The plea failed and Russia began to mobilize
A Harsh Ultimatum Germany responded
by declaring war on Russia
Russia, in turn appealed to its ally, France
France saw the chance to avenge the Franco-Prussian War
A Harsh Ultimatum Germany demanded
that France remain neutral
France Refused Germany declared
war on France The battle lines
started to harden
The Schlieffen Plan Italy and Britain remained uncommitted Italy decided to remain neutral for the
time being Britain had to decided quickly whether
or not to support France Germany’s war plan made the decision
for Britain
The Schlieffen Plan Germany’s worst fear was a war on two
fronts France would attack from the west and
Russia from the east Years earlier, General Alfred Schlieffen
had developed a strategy to avoid a two front war
The Schlieffen Plan Russia’s military would be slow to
mobilize Under the Schlieffen Plan, Germany had to
defeat France quickly Then it would fight Russia Germany was going to march through
Belgium, then swing south behind French Lines
On the MoveGermany invaded BelgiumEngland and other European powers
had signed a treaty that guaranteed Belgian neutrality
Outraged by this invasion, Belgium and Britain declared war on Germany
Force NumbersFranceBritainRussiaGermany
8.5 Million9 Million12 Million11 Million
The Western Front German forces swept
throughout Belgium towards Paris
Russia mobilized more quickly than expected
After Russian forces won a few victories in E. Prussia, Germany shifted troops
The Western Front British troops
reached France and the German offensive stalled
Both sides dug in for the winter
the battle lines remained unchanged for four years
Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare On the Western Front trenches stretched
from the Swiss frontier to the English Channel
An underground network linked bunkers, communications, trenches and gun emplacements
Millions of soldiers roasted in the summer and froze in the winter
No Man’s Land Empty track of land between opposing
trenches Every house and tree had been destroyed by
shells Men looked through the barbed wire to wait
for the next attack in this area They would have to attack when their
officer gave the order
Costly Battles In 1916, both the Allies and Central Powers
launched massive offenses to break the stalemate
German forces tried to overwhelm the French at Verdun
The French set up the battle cry “They shall not pass”
The struggle cost more than a half-million casualties on both sides
Costly BattlesAn allied offensive at the Somme
River resulted in 60,000 British soldiers dead or wounded
In the five month battle, over 1,000,000 soldiers were killed without either side winning an advantage
Disasters for Russia In 1914, Russian armies pushed into eastern
Germany At the Battle of Tannenberg, they suffered
one of the worst defeats of the war After Tannenberg, the armies in the east
fought on Russian soil Russia lacked the equipment to fight a
modern war
Battle of Tanneberg
War in the South Southeastern Europe was another
battleground In 1915, Bulgaria joined the Central
Powers and helped crush its old rival Serbia
Italy, meanwhile, joined the Allies to gain Austrian-ruled lands inhabited by Italians
War in the SouthCaporetto, the major battle
on the Italian front, was as disastrous for Italy as Tannenberg had been for Russia
Non-European Powers The Ottoman empire joined the Central
Powers in 1914 The Turks then closed off the Allied ships
from the Dardanelles This was a strategic link to the Black Sea
and Russia The Allies sent British, Indian, Australian
and New Zealand troops to open the strait
Non-European PowersAt the Battle of Gallipoli, Turkish
troops tied down the trapped Allies on the beaches
In January of 1916, after 10 months and more than 200,000 casualties, the Allies finally withdrew from the Dardanelles
Non-European Powers Japan, allied to Britain, used the war as an
excuse to seize German outposts in China and islands in the Pacific
It also tried to impose a protectorate on China
The world’s other great industrial power, the United States, tried to remain neutral
Women at War
Women at War Women played a major part in the Great
War When men left to fight, the women took
over their jobs in the factories and fields The most dangerous job for a woman was as
a nurse on the front lines The worked around the clock, especially
after a big push
Women at WarVera Brittain, a nurse describes sweating
thorough 90-degree days in France “Stopping hemorrhages, replacing
intestines, and draining and reinserting innumerable rubber tubes with gruesome human remains heaped on the floor at my feet”
Women at War War gave women a different attitude and
freedom
“The woman that kissed her man goodbye at the start of the Great War was not the one that welcomed him home” -SKM
Revolution in Russia Three years of war
hit Russia especially hard
Stories of incompetent generals and corruption destroyed public confidence
Revolution in Russia In March, 1917, bread
riots in St. Petersburg mushroomed into a revolution that brought down the Russian monarchy
V.I. Lenin came to power and promised to get out of the war
Revolution in Russia Early in 1918, Lenin
signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany
The treaty ended Russian participation in World War I
Ace of Ace’s Manfred von
Richthofen The Red Baron Called Red Baron
because of the color of his plane
Leader of the “Flying Circus”
Red BaronIs credited
for 80 confirmed kills in World War I
United States Declares War
The United States declared war on Germany in 1917
The major reason for this was the use of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
United States Declares War
The submarine’s were hunting down and sinking merchant and passenger ships
These ships. however had American citizens on them
United States Declares War
Many of these ships were carrying supplies to the allies
United States Declares War
President Woodrow Wilson insisted that Americans, as citizens of a neutral country, had a right to safe travel on the seas
May 1915
May 1915
May 1915 A German submarine torpedoed the British Liner Lusitania
Almost 1,200 passengers were killed, including 128 Americans
Germany justified the attack by saying that the ship was carrying weapons
Wilson threatened to cut off relations to Germany As a result, Germany agreed to restricted
Submarine Warfare
Submarine WarfareBefore attacking any ship, U-boats
would surface and give warning, allowing neutral passengers to escape to its lifeboats
In January of 1917, however, Germany angered Wilson by resuming unrestricted submarine warfare
Zimmermann Note In early 1917, the British intercepted a
message from the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmermann, to his ambassador in Mexico
Zimmermann promised that, in return for Mexican support, Germany would help Mexico “to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas and Arizona.”
April 1917 Wilson asked congress to declare war on
Germany “We have no selfish ends to serve” “We need to make the world safe for
democracy” It took months for the Americans to get
into the war
J.J. “Blackjack” Pershing American
commander during “Great War”
became famous chasing Pancho Villa
Was called “Blackjack” because of his Buffalo Soldier command
J.J. “Blackjack” Pershing
Pershing insisted that American troops be commanded by Americans
The Fourteen Points Though Wilson had
failed at maintaining peace, he still hoped to be a peacemaker
In January of 1918, he issued his Fourteen Points, a list of terms for resolving this and future wars
Campaign to Victory The final showdown
got underway in early 1918
The German commanders advised Kaiser Wilhelm II to resign
He did and fled to the Netherlands
Campaign to VictoryAustria-Hungary was on the brink of
destruction as wellOn November 11, 1918 at 11:00AM,
the great war came to an endThis is called Armistice DayThis was the time that a course of
action had to be decided
The Big ThreeWoodrow Wilson (USA)David Lloyd George (UK)Georges Clemenceau (FR)Wilson urged “peace without
victory” he wanted the Fourteen Points to be the basis of peace
Campaign to Victory David Lloyd George, knew that his people
were going to demand harsh treatment of the Germans
Clemenceau, bore the nickname “the Tiger” because of his fierce war policy
His chief goal was to weaken Germany so that it could never threaten France again
Campaign to Victory Crowds of people began to gather
around the “Big Three” with their own demands and interests
The difficult ones were the secret agreements made by the allies during the war
Italy had signed one such treaty
Campaign to Victory Italy’s Prime Minister, Vittorio Orlando, insisted
on gaining for Italy lands that were once ruled by Austria-Hungary
Such agreements violated Wilson’s principle of self determination
Wilson had to compromise on his “Fourteen Points”
One dream that he stood by, however, was the League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles In June of 1919, the peacemakers
summoned representatives of the New German Republic to the palace of Versailles
The forced Germany to assume full blame for causeing the war
The economic result of the treaty would kill Germany ($30 Billion)
Treaty of Versailles The treaty limited the size of the German
military The Germans had to return Alsace and
Lorraine to France They removed hundreds of square miles of
territory from western and eastern Germany and stripped Germany of its colonies
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