WORLD WAR ONE (1914-1917) THE GREAT WAR THE WAR TO END ALL WARS

FRANCE, ENGLAND AND RUSSIA THE CENTRAL POWERS (THE BAD GUYS) GERMANY, ITALY AND THE AUSTRIA-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE. ALSO THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (BIG MISTAKE!) THE TRIPLE ENTENTE (THE GOOD GUYS) FRANCE, ENGLAND AND RUSSIA AND SOON, AMERICA!

ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND GETS ASSASSINATED

TRENCH WARFARE

WORLD WAR ONE WAS ONE OF THE WORST WARS EVER!!! CASUALTIES 16 MILLION DEAD!!!!!! 20 MILLION WOUNDED!!!!!!! IN 1916 ALONE: GERMANY LOSES 218,000 MEN FRANCE LOSES 315,000 ENGLAND 420,000 (60,000 IN ONE DAY) GERMANY, ANOTHER 450,000 AND THE FRENCH ANOTHER 200,000

AFTER WWI, WE MAKE GERMANY SIGN THE TREATY OF VERSAILLE, WHICH REALLY PUNISHES GERMANY BECAUSE OF WWI.

BUT IT PUNISHES GERMANY TOO MUCH BUT IT PUNISHES GERMANY TOO MUCH! IT MAKES THE GERMANS PAY $35,000,000,000.00 FOR THE WAR FUN FACT: THE TREATY OF VERSAILLE MAKES GERMAN MONEY, THE DEUTSCHEMARK, 99.9% WORTHLESS.

OTHER CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR WE GET A BRAND NEW EUROPE (POLAND, YUGOSLAVIA, CZECHSOLAVAKIA) WOMEN JOINED THE WORKFORCE LEADERS TOOK OVER UNPRECDENTED CONTROL OVER THEIR ECONOMIES (LIKE HITLER WILL) THIS WAS A TOTAL WAR, MEANING EVET ASPECT OF SOCIETY GOT INVOLVED.

OTHER CONSEQUENCES OF WWI: THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (WHICH JOINED GERMANY) BECOMES TURKEY WE GET NEW LANDS IN THE MIDDLE EAST CALLED IRAN, IRAQ AND PALESTINE (WHICH ISRAEL WILL TAKE OVER AFTER THE HOLOCAUST. AMERICA BECOMES COUNTRY #1!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON CREATES THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO MAKE SURE WORLD WARS NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN BUT………WE SEE HOW THAT WORKED OUT!

AFTER WWI, WE MAKE GERMANY SIGN THE TREATY OF VERSAILLE, WHICH REALLY PUNISHES GERMANY BECAUSE OF WWI. BUT IT PUNSIHES GERMANY TOO MUCH! IT MAKES THE GERMANS PAY $35,000,000,000.00 FOR THE WAR. IT ALSO TAKES 15% OF THEIR LAND AND TELLS THEM THEY CAN NEVER HAVE AN ARMY AGAIN.

GERMANY WILL BECOME SO POOR THAT HITLER WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE OVER. WE LEARN FROM THIS AND REALIZE WE CAN’T PUNISH COUNTRIES TOO MUCH AND WE CAN’T LEAVE THEM POOR AFTER A WAR. THAT IS WHY WE REBUILD EUROPE AND JAPAN AFTER WWII!!!!

AND AMERICA IS NEUTRAL. FOR NOW……… CAUSES OF WWI NATIONALISM: THE LOVE OF YOUR COUNTRY MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE’S   SO GERMANY HATES FRANCE RUSSIA HATES GERMANY ENGLAND HATES RUSSIA AND AMERICA IS NEUTRAL. FOR NOW………

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND MILITARISM: COUNTRIES NOW HAD AIRPLANES, MACHINE GUNS, FLAMETHROWERS AND EVEN POISON GAS. SO EVERY COUNTRY IS IN COMPETITION FOR THE BEST WEAPONS IN THE WORLD.   GERMANY THEN INVENTS THE SUBMARINE (U-BOAT). - ENGLAND HAS THE BEST NAVY IN THE WORLD

GERMAN U-BOATS

IMPERIALISM: EVERY COUNTRY IN EUROPE IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER AFRICA

ALLIANCES: EVERY COUNTRY HAD AN ALLIANCE WITH OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES GERMANY FORMED AN ALLIANCE WITH THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE FRANCE SIGNED AN ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA ENLGAND WAS FRIENDS WITH FRANCE AND GERMANY WAS FRIENDS WITH ITALY AMERICA IS NEUTRAL. FOR NOW………

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY DECLARES WAR ON SERBIA TIME-LINE ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY GETS ASSASSINATED BY A SERBIAN NATIONALIST. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY DECLARES WAR ON SERBIA RUSSIA IS FRIENDS WITH SERBIA AND THEY DECLARE WAR ON AUSTRIA-HUNGARY GERMANY DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA FRANCE DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY ENGLAND DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY

NOW, THE ARCHDUKE ASSASSINATION WASN’T REALLY THAT BOG A DEAL IN AND OF ITSELF. BUT WHEN THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE INVADED SERBIA, RUSSIA GOT INLOVED