Timeline of the Great War Key Events

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Casualties Country Population (Millions) Total Mobilized Forces (Millions) Total Casualties Percentage of Mobilized Forces Germany 65 11 ? Austria-Hungary 51 7.8 England 45 8.9 France 40 8.4 Russia 175 12 Serbia 4.5 .7 United States 92 4.3

War’s Toll Based on the country that you represented in the simulation, I want you to get together with your fellow countrymen and provide me with an estimate of the blanks in the previous chart for your country. As a tiebreaker, fill in the two blanks for the US. We will put these on the board so we can follow your progress as we discuss the battles in the war. Winning group wins candy.

Important Events Assassination Battle of the Marne Battle of Tannenberg Battle of Ypres Battle of Gallipoli Sinking of the Lusitania Failed Offensives – Battle of Verdun and the Somme Zimmerman Telegram Russia in Revolution US Joins Armistice ends the War Treaty of Versailles

The Schlieffen Plan Named after designer general Alfred Graf von Schlieffen Plan for a 2 front war with Russia and France Troops would go west first and defeat French through Belgium (refused & allies with Britain) After defeat of French – go east to meet Russia who would have slow mobilization due to lack of railroads. Germany invades Belgium – Britain is entered in the Great War Avoid a 2-Front War

Assassination of the Archduke

2. Battle of the Marne

War in Russia That Germany would be defeated, few Russians doubted; England’s entry made the outcome certain. There was controversy as to how long the war would go on. “Six months,” said the pessimists, who argued that the Germans might fight. “The Germans don’t know how to fight,” replied the optimists. “They only know how to make sausages. All the Russians will have to do to annihilate the whole German army is simply to throw their caps at them.” Nicholas and Alexandra, by Robert K Massie, page 280.

3. Battle of Tannenberg

4. 1st Battle of Ypres

Revisions? Do you want to revise any of the estimates that you have made for your country? If so, you have one minute to alter your estimates on the board.

5. Gallipoli Campaign

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Leaving the Shelter YouTube - Gallipoli : What are your legs ?

6. Sinking of the Lusitania

Verdun http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-one/battles-of-world-war-one/the-battle-of-verdun/

8. Zimmerman Telegram

9. Russia in Revolution

10. USA

US Involvement “To ban loans and embargo munitions would have been to give realistic expression to the isolation that the people and their President believed they enjoyed. But it would have closed off the wealth of unlimited orders, and Americans did not wish to suffer for their neutrality. Rather they hoped to make a good thing of it. With these two economic measures taken before the war was three months old, the fact, if not the illusion, of isolation was dead.” How We Entered World War I by Barbara Tuchman

Prohibition and the War The wartime emergency enabled Wilson , with scant public opposition to “seize railways, requisition factories, take over mines, fix prices, put an embargo on all exports, commandeer all ships, standardize all loaves of bread, punish careless use of fuel, draft men for the army, and send that army to a war in France.” Compared to all of that, closing down distilleries and breweries didn’t seem so radical at all. Last Call, the Rise and Fall of Prohibition, Daniel Okrent, page 100

11. Armistice signed

12. Versailles Conference

Final Revisions Once again, you have one minute to make any revisions to your estimates.

Casualties Country Population (Millions) Total Mobilized Forces (Millions) Total Casualties (Millions) Casualties as a Percentage of Mobilized Forces Germany 65 11 7.1 64.9% Austria-Hungary 51 7.8 7.0 90.0% England 45 8.9 3.2 35.8% France 40 8.4 6.2 73.3% Russia 175 12 9.15 76.3% Serbia 4.5 .7 .3 46.8% United States 92 4.3 7.0%

Totals Side Total Mobilized Forces (Millions) Total Casualties (Millions) Casualties as a Percentage of Total Mobilized Forces Allies 42.2 22.1 52.3% Central Powers 22.9 15.4 67.4%

Sources Pictures Encarta.msn.com Population Information wikipedia.com Other information on the previous chart http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/resources/casdeath_pop.html