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World War I1914-1918

What was the status of these countries prior to WWI?

• Germany

• France

• Great Britain

• Austria-Hungary

• Russia

• Italy

• Unification

• Loss of Alsace Lorraine by Treaty of Frankfurt

• Fully industrialized• Leading trading nation• World’s banker• Greatest naval power• Largest colonial empire

• Lack of cultural unity• Growing nationalism stirring unrest

• Expansionism• War with Japan 1905

• Sought recognition as a major power

Long Range Causes

• Nationalism• Militarism• Alliances• Imperialism

Militarism

Bertha von Suttner

Nobel Peace Prize

Alliances

• Triple Alliance—1882 Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

• Reinsurance Treaty—1887 Germany and Russia— neutrality guaranteed if either went to war

• 1890 Bismarck dismissed• Treaty not renewed• Russia looks for ally—1894 Franco-Russian Alliance

• Triple Entente 1907—Great Britain, France, Russia

Imperialism

• Fashoda Crisis—Sudan—Great Britain and France

• Moroccan Crisis—1905 and 1911—France and Germany

• Balkan Crises—1912-1913—Russia [Pan Slavism] supports expansion plans of Serbia

“Powder Keg”

• Pan Slavism• Russia demoralized after defeat by Japan turns

attention to Balkans• 1st Crisis

– Bosnia annexed by Austria-Hungary– Italy takes Libya

• 1st Balkan War– 1908 Creation of Albania—Serbia loses access to Adriatic

Sea

• 2nd Balkan War– 1913 Serbia’s attempt to gain Albania fails with German

support for Austria-Hungary– Serbia frustrated and Russia humiliated

Immediate Cause

Archduke Ferdinand assassinated in

SarajevoJune 1914

Gavrilo Princip and the Black Hand

The Schlieffen Plan

German Atrocities in Belgium

Mobilization• Home by Christmas• No major war in 50 years• Nationalism

It’s a long way to Tipperary

It’s a long way to go

It’s a long way to Tipperary

To the sweetest girl I know!

Goodbye Piccadilly,

Farewell, Leicester Square,

It’s a long, long way to Tipperary,

But my heart’s right there!

Recruitment Posters

Australia Propagand

a

German Poster

“Think of Your Children!”

Soldiers Mobilized

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2

4

6

8

10

12

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France Germany Russia Britain

Mil

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ns

Women and the War Effort

Financing the War

Recruitment

Munitions Workers

French Factory Workers

German Factory Workers

Working in the Fields

Ambulance Driver

Red Cross Workers

Russian Women Soldiers

Multi-Front War

Western Front

Trench Warfar

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see Trench Warfare PPT

Activity

No Man’s Land

Battle of VerdunLongest and Bloodiest Battle

32,000,000 . Estimated artillery shells fired in Battle of Verdun

German offensive.

Each side had 500,000 casualties.

German offensive.

Each side had 500,000 casualties.

Verdun—February 1916

60,000 British soldiers killed in one day.

Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.

60,000 British soldiers killed in one day.

Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.

The Somme, July, 1916

The Cost of War

The Eastern Front

The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915

Sikh British Soldiers in India

French colonial Marine infantry from China—fighting in

Greece

Russia’s Role• War revealed the

ineptitude and arrogance of the country’s aristocratic elite

• Corrupt military leadership had contempt for ordinary Russian people

• Ill-trained, ineffective officers, poorly equipped– – the result was mass

desertions and 2 million casualties by 1915

• Battle of Tannenberg (August, 1914) – massive defeat at hands of Hindenburg and Germany

• Nicholas left for the Front—September, 1915

America slow to enter the War

•Neutrality

•Trade partners with England and France

•Lusitania sunk

•Zimmerman Telegram

•Unrestricted submarine warfare

•April 6, 1917—Congress declares war

May 7th 1915

Zimmerman Telegram

The Yanks Are

Coming!!

Americans in the Trenches

New Technology Changes War

French Renault Tank

British Tank at Ypres

U-Boats

Allied ships

sunk by U-boats

Flying Aces of World War I

Eddie Rickenbacher, US

FrancescoBarraco, It.

Rene PaukFonck, Fr.

Manfred vonRichtoffen, Ger.

[The “Red Baron”]

Willy Coppens deHolthust, Belg.

Eddie “Mick”Mannoch, Br.

Curtis-Martin Aircraft PlantUnited States

Looking for the “Red Baron?”

Looking for the “Red Baron?”

The Zeppelin

Grenade Launchers

Flame Throwers

Poison Gas

Machine Gun

Art of World War

I

1918 Flue Pandemic: Depletes all Armies

50,000,000 – 50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died100,000,000 died

50,000,000 – 50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died100,000,000 died

Russians Exit War

• Treaty of Brest Litovsk

• March 3, 1918

Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour, Eleventh Month—

All is Quiet on the Western Front

November 11, 1918

Human Costs of War

• 8,000,000 . . . Estimated civilians killed in Great War: Non-influenza

• 8,300,000 . . . . . . . Estimated combatants killed, all nations

• 21,500,000 . . . . Minimum deaths in 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

Note: Georgia’s population is approximately 9.5 million

Atlanta’s population is approximately 500,000

Germany

France Britain

Russia

Austria-Hungary

Who was to blame for WWI?

Effects of WWI

Immediate• Russian Revolution• Destruction and

loss of life• Treaty of Versailles• League of Nations• Breakup of Austro-

Hungarian Empire• Mandates

Long-Term• German and Italian

resentment of treaty

• US policy of isolationism

• Rise of fascism• WWII