1. : The Great War

2. Differing Viewpoints “Family Feud” “Fall of the Eagles”
“The War to End All Wars”
“The War to ‘Make the World Safe for Democracy’”

3. Causes of the War

4. 1. The Alliance System Triple Entente: Triple Alliance: Great Britain
Germany
Austria-Hungary
France
Russia
Italy

5. Two Armed Camps! Allied Powers: Central Powers: Great Britain France
Russia
Germany
Austria-
Hungary
Ottoman
Empire
Italy

6. Victor Emmanuel II [It]
The Major Players:
Allied Powers:
Central Powers:
Nicholas II [Rus]
Wilhelm II [Ger]
George V [Br]
Victor Emmanuel II [It]
Enver Pasha [Turkey]
Pres. Poincare [Fr]
Franz Josef [A-H]

7. Europe in 1914

8. 1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures
2. Militarism & Arms Race
Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br., Rus.] in millions of £s.
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1914 94
130
154
268
289
398
Increase in Defense Expenditures
France
10%
Britain
13%
Russia
39%
Germany
73%

9. 3. Economic & Imperial Rivalries

10. 4. Aggressive Nationalism

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

12. The “Spark”

13. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

14. The Assassination: Sarajevo

15. The Assassin:
Gavrilo Princip

18. Who’s To Blame?

19. The Schlieffen Plan
Plan for attacking France in the west and then rushing to attack Russia in the east

20. German Atrocities in Belgium

21. Mobilization
Home by Christmas!
No major war in 50 years!
Nationalism!

22. Recruitment Posters

23. A Young Australian Recruit

24. Recruits of the Central Powers
A German Soldier Says Farewell to His Mother
Austro-Hungarians

25. New French Recruits

26. A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier

28. Women and the War Effort

29. Financing the War

30. For Recruitment

31. Munitions Workers

32. French Women Factory Workers

33. German Women Factory Workers

34. Working in the Fields

35. A Woman Ambulance Driver

36. Red Cross Nurses

37. Women in the Army Auxiliary

38. Russian Women Soldiers

39. Spies
“Mata Hari”
Real Name: Margareetha Geertruide Zelle
German Spy!

40. Posters: Wartime Propaganda

41. Australian Poster

42. American Poster

43. Financing the War

44. German Poster
Think of Your Children!

45. The Western Front: A “War of Attrition”

46. A Multi-Front War

47. The Western Front

48. Trench Warfare

49. Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”

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

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

55. War Is HELL !!

56. Sacrifices in War

57. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

58. The Eastern Front

59. The “Colonial” Fronts

60. America Joins the Allies

61. Terms to Know:
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare-In January 1917 Germany announced that it would sink, without warning, any ship in the waters around Britain.
Total War-War in which the countries devote all resources and workers to the war effort.

62. The Sinking of the Lusitania
May 7, 1915-(1,198 dead; 128 Americans)

63. The Zimmerman Telegram
February 1917

64. The Yanks Are Coming!

65. Americans in the Trenches

66. The War of the Industrial Revolution: New Technology

67. French Renault Tank

68. British Tank at Ypres

69. U-Boats

70. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

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

72. The Flying Aces of World War I
Eddie Rickenbacher, US
Francesco Barraco, It.
Eddie “Mick” Mannoch, Br.
Manfred von Richtoffen, Ger. [The “Red Baron”]
Rene Pauk Fonck, Fr.
Willy Coppens de Holthust, Belg.

73. Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant

74. Looking for the “Red Baron?”

75. The Zeppelin

76. Flame Throwers
Grenade Launchers

77. Poison Gas
Machine Gun

78. “Art” of World War I

79. “A Street in Arras” John Singer Sargent, 1918

80. “Oppy Wood” – John Nash, 1917

81. “Those Who Have Lost Their Names” Albin Eggar-Linz, 1914

82. “Gassed and Wounded” Eric Kennington, 1918

83. “Paths of Glory” C. R. W. Nevinson, 1917

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

85. 1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies
50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died

86. The Armistice is Signed!
11 a.m., November 11, 1918
The Armistice is Signed!

87. 9,000,000 Dead

88. The Somme American Cemetary, France
116,516 Americans Died

89. World War I Casualties

90. Terms to know:
Treaty of Versailles-Treaty forced on Germany, exactly 5 years after Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. It severely punished Germany with large fines, severe restrictions on its military, and the humiliating
“War Guilt” clause.
League of Nations-League proposed by President Woodrow Wilson and set up to be an international association whose goal would be to keep peace among nations.