1. WORLD WAR I
War to End All Wars

2. The Great War
Over 20 million killed
Total War
The War to End All Wars

3. Causes of WWI
Nationalism
Imperialism
Militarism
Alliance system

4. The Background Great Britain- Queen Victoria 1837-1901
Revolutions of 1848
Garibaldi unites Italy in 1861
Napoleon III
Russia

10. Deutschland Otto Von Bismarck- Foreign Minister King Wilhelm
War with Denmark- Schleswig and Holstein 1864
1866 Austria

13. Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71
Napoleon III
Treaty of Versailles 1871
Alsace-Lorraine
Second Reich
Kaiser Wilhelm I
Chancellor Bismarck

17. Alliances: Bismarck’s fears
War on Two Fronts
Dual Alliance
1882 Triple Alliance
Russian Accords
Britain

19. 1888
Kaiser Wilhelm I, Frederick Wilhelm I, Wilhelm II
Fires Bismarck in 1890

21. The Alliances Two alliances- Triple Alliance and Triple Entente
Powder Keg

22. Crisis “Sick man of Europe” Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina
1894 Dreyfus Affair
Moroccan Crisis 1905 and 1911
Balkans War
“Sick man of Europe”
Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina

27. Crisis in the Balkans Austria-Hungary- Franz Joseph
Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie to Sarajevo
June 28, 1914

32. The Black Hand
What was it?
Gavrilo Princip

34. The Worst Wrong Turn Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie
June 28, 1914

37. The Spark Emperor Franz Joseph Russia and Germany Austrian Ultimatum
July28, 1914 Austria declares war

39. Germany’s Plan
Schlieffen Plan
Alfred Von Schlieffen
The Right Arm

43. The French Plan 17
Invasion at Alsace and Lorraine
Élan

45. The War Begins
Willy/Nicky letters
August 1, 1914
Propaganda

46. Britain Enters
August 4, 1914
Belgium
BEF
The US?
Woodrow Wilson

47. The First Battle of the Marne
Sept 1914
Belgians fight
Russians
Taxicab Army
Another Wrong Turn

50. Western Front New Weapons- Industrial Revolution Stalemate
War of attrition
Trench Warfare- “No Man’s Land”

52. New Weapons
Machine gun, barbed wire, poison gas, airplane, zeppelin, tank, submarine

57. The Sides
Central Powers
Allied Powers

59. Trench warfare 500 miles Switzerland to the North Sea
Conditions in the Trenches
Rats…millions of them
Over the top

60. 60

78. Battles Tannenberg- The East- 1914 Verdun- Petain-1917 Somme-1915
Ypres- 1914, 1915
Passchendaele-1917
The Tank and the Plane

83. Eastern Front
Russian losses
More movement

84. The Commanders France- Joffre, Petain, Foch Britain-Haig
Germany- Hindenberg and Ludendorff

88. The Middle East
Lawrence of Arabia
Gallipoli Winston Churchill

92. The Atlantic U-boats Unrestricted Submarine warfare Lusitania
Woodrow Wilson
Sussex Pledge- 1915

96. 1917 French Army Mutiny Britain was near surrender
Germany was starving
Russia was near collapse
Peace without victory
US was in Mexico chasing Poncho Villa

97. US Enters the War 1917 Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Zimmerman Note
“Make the World Safe for Democracy”
April 2, 1917

99. US Army? “Black Jack” Pershing Convoys Propaganda Total War and Bonds
Rationing

106. Russia drops Out Feb 1917 Revolution V.I. Lenin
Nov 1917 Communist Revolution
Brest-Litovsk Treaty

108. Last Chance Eric Ludendorff and Paul Von Hindenburg 2nd Marne
John J. “Blackjack” Pershing
Ferdinand Foch

110. End of the War Germans Run out of gas Doughboys- Alvin York
Muese-Arrgone Offensive
Wilson’s 14 points
November 11, 1918

113. Lost Empires
Germany, Austria, Russia, Ottomans

114. Paris Peace Conference 1919
Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau, Orlando
What did each want?
Who is not there?
League of Nations

116. The Treaty of Versailles
What did it state?
The Guilt Clause

117. New Maps
Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon

119. US
Isolationism

120. Doomsday Flu
Spanish Flu

122. Results
Set up for the rise of Hitler
Set up World War II
Japan, Germany, and Italy
20 million killed

124. Armenian Genocide