Airplanes Trench Warfare Poison Gas Machine Gun (improved) Tank Submarine New Technology
Countries devote all resources to the war effort. Government takes control of economy; all production intended for war effort Anti-war activity is restricted Propaganda used by government Women join workforce (built tanks, plowed fields, paved streets, ran hospitals) Total War
Propaganda
Wanted freedom from Turkish rule (Ottoman Empire) Freedom/independence was denied Pledged their support to Triple Entente Turkish government deported 2 million Armenians (death marches) 600, 000 Armenians died along the way Considered to be first genocide of 20 th Century Armenian Massacre
Complete the worksheet on the Russian Revolution. Russian Revolution
Wilson’s Peace Plan 14 Points End secret treaties; free trade; change borders and creating new nations; self-determination League of Nations Conditions of Versailles League of Nations established Punish Germany (war reparations, restrict military power, loss of territory in Africa and Pacific) Treaty of Versailles
New countries such as Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia Ottoman Turks gave up all territory except Turkey Development of modern middle east-Palestine, Iraq, Transjordan (Britain); Syria and Lebanon (France) Creation of New Nations
Postwar Europe in debt; German economy especially declines US stock market crashes (1929) US Great Depression causes global depression Great Depression/Economic Decline
Russia-Communist under Lenin, then Stalin Germany-Totalitarian dictatorship under Hitler Italy-Totalitarian fascist government under Mussolini Development of Totalitarian Governments