world war i. the turning point -- u.s. enters war (1917) 1. lusitania (1915) –e–english...
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World War IWorld War I
THE Turning Point -- U.S. enters THE Turning Point -- U.S. enters war (1917)war (1917)
• 1. Lusitania (1915)– English passenger
ship (128 Americans on board die) sunk by German U-boat
– Other ships are sunk as well
– Germany promises to sink all ships (in British water) on sight
U.S. enters warU.S. enters war
• 2. Zimmermann note– Germany tries to get
Mexico to invade U.S.• Promises a return of
conquered territory
U.S. aids the AlliesU.S. aids the Allies
Other BattlesOther Battles
• Cantigny (1918) – First battle for U.S. troops – stop Germans 50 miles outside Paris
• Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood (June 1918) – Germans retreat
22ndnd Battle of the Marne (July 1918) Battle of the Marne (July 1918)
• Germany’s last effort to win on Western Front – fails
• War is over• Kaiser Wilhelm steps
down
New Tools for warNew Tools for war
Machine GunsMachine Guns
Poison GasPoison Gas
TanksTanks
AirplanesAirplanes
Curtiss - American
Halberstadt - German
FlamethrowersFlamethrowers
Heroes (and Goats)Heroes (and Goats)
Allies
- General Pershing
- Alvin C. York (killed 20 captured 132)
- Eddie Rickenbacker (134 dogfights – 26 downed aircraft)
- Woodrow Wilson
Heroes, cont.Heroes, cont.
• Herbert Hoover (fed starving in Belgium)
• George Creel (propaganda and morale)
• Russian Bolsheviks
• The Big 4– David Lloyd George– Georges Clemenceau– Vittorio Orlando
Heroes, cont.Heroes, cont.
Central Powers
- Kaiser Wilhelm
- Gavrilo Princip
- Baron von Richthofen (Red Baron)
Costs and LivesCosts and Lives
LivesOver 8,000,000 total deathsGermany = 1,900,000Russia = 1,300,000France = 1,300,000Austria-Hungary = 1,200,000England = 1,000,000Ottoman Empire = 725,000United States = 116,000
Costs and Lives, cont.Costs and Lives, cont.
Russia most casualties (when you include starvation, illness, etc.) with over 9 million dead, wounded, and missing
U.S. total casualties = 360,000
Money
$185,000,000,000 total
U.S. = $22.5 billion
Germany = $37.8 billion
TreatyTreaty
War Ends 11/11/1918 at 11 a.m.
Treaty of Versailles Jan. 18, 1919
New nations created (including Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia)
Germany had to return Alsace-Lorraine to France
Germany had to pay $33 billion in war damages to the allies
Treaty, cont.Treaty, cont.
• Germany’s army reduced to 100,000 - no weapons, no U-boats
• Germany forced to admit sole guilt (war-guilt clause)
• Germany loses all colonial/imperial holdings
• Austria-Hungary divided
• Russia loses more territory than Germany
Non-Treaty Results/Long-term Non-Treaty Results/Long-term significancesignificance
• Fourteen Points• League of Nations (threatens American
isolationism?)• Russia determined to regain territory as Soviet
Union• Germany humiliated (HUGE chip on its
shoulder)• No enforcing of treaty• World War II