: The World at War : The World at War

The “ Spark ”

Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

Black Hand

The Assassin: Gavrilo Princip Gavrilo Princip

The Assassination: Sarajevo

Who’s To Blame?

"The Great War was without precedent... never had so many nations taken up arms at a single time. Never had the battlefield been so vast… never had the fighting been so gruesome...“ "World War I marked the first use of chemical weapons, the first mass bombardment of civilians from the sky, and the century's first genocide..."

Overview   65 million Soldiers fought  9 million died  20 million wounded  Total War  Timeline: – 14.html 14.html

Causes of the War

1. System of Alliances

Alliances during the War Allied Powers: Central Powers:

2. Militarism

3. Imperialism Economic & Imperial Rivalries 3. Imperialism Economic & Imperial Rivalries

4. Aggressive Nationalism

Pan-Slavism: The Balkans, 1914 The “Powder Keg” of Europe

The Schlieffen Plan

Posters: Wartime Propaganda

Australian Poster

American Poster

Financing the War

German Poster

The Western Front: A “ War of Attrition ”

A Multi-Front War

The Western Front

Trench Warfare

Trench Warfare “No Man’s Land”

Verdun – February, 1916 e German offensive. e Each side had 500,000 casualties. e German offensive. e Each side had 500,000 casualties.

The Somme – July, 1916 e 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. e Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months. e 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. e Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.

War Is HELL !!

Sacrifices in War

The Eastern Front

The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915

Turkish Cavalry in Palestine

The “ Colonial ” Fronts

Sikh British Soldiers in India

Fighting in Africa British Sikh Mountain Gunners Black Soldiers in the German Schutztruppen [German E. Africa]

Fighting in Africa 3 rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade

Fighting in Salonika, Greece French colonial marine infantry from Cochin, China

America Joins the Allies

The Sinking of the Lusitania

The Zimmerman Telegram

The Yanks Are Coming! The Yanks Are Coming!

Americans in the Trenches

The War of the Industrial Revolution: New Technology

French Renault Tank

British Tank at Ypres

Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

U-Boats

Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

The Airplane “Squadron Over the Brenta” Max Edler von Poosch, 1917

The Zeppelin

Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers

Poison Gas Machine Gun

German Cartoon: “Fit for active service!”, 1918

1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies 50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died 50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died

11 a.m., November 11, 1918

Over 9,000,000 Dead Over 9,000,000 Dead

The Somme American Cemetary, France 116,516 Americans Died

World War I Casualties

“Flawed Peace” The Treaty of Versailles and Wilson’s Fourteen Points

Paris Peace Conference  Delegates from 32 countries met to create peace treaty  Big Four: Woodrow Wilson (US), Georges Clemenceau (France), David Lloyd George (GB) and Vittorio Orlando (Italy) – Why wasn’t Russia there?

Wilson’s Plan…  Fourteen Points:

Europe’s Plan  Treaty of Versailles: