1. By: Mr. Freccia Newark High School, Newark, DE
: The World at War
By: Mr. Freccia Newark High School, Newark, DE

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:
Central Powers:

5. 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. 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%

8. 3. Economic & Imperial Rivalries
Green = Triple Entente / Orange = Central Powers / Gray = Neutral

9. 4. Aggressive Nationalism

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

11. The “Spark”

12. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

13. The Assassination: Sarajevo

14. The Assassin:
Gavrilo Princip

15. Who’s To Blame?

16. Help, Help, Help!

17. Help, Help, Help! – The road to World War I
Step 1: The “Black Hand” (Serbian Nationalists) assassinates the crown prince of Austria-Hungary
Step 2: Austria-Hungary blames Serbia for terrorist action / declares war

18. Step 3: Serbia (help, help, help!) brings in Russia thru alliance
Step 4: Austria-Hungary (help, help, help!) brings in Germany thru alliance
Step 5: Because Germany is now at war with Russia, France comes to the aide of Russia (as per treaty)

19. Step 6: The Schlieffen Plan – Germany attacks France thru Belgium (violating their neutrality)

20. German Atrocities in Belgium
The road to World War I
Step 7: United Kingdom declares war on Germany for violating Belgium’s neutrality
German Atrocities in Belgium

21. Step 8: Japan declares war on Germany and Austria-Hungary
Step 9: Ottomans declare war against distracted Russia, joins Central Powers
Step 10: Bulgaria attacks Serbia with Central Powers in October 1914

22. Mobilization Home by Christmas! No major war in 50 years! Nationalism!
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go;
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye, Piccadilly,
Farewell, Leicester Square,
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there!

23. Recruitment Posters

24. A Young Australian Recruit

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

26. New French Recruits

27. A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier

29. The Sides

30. Women and the War Effort

31. Financing the War

32. For Recruitment

33. Munitions Workers

34. French Women Factory Workers

35. German Women Factory Workers

36. Working in the Fields

37. A Woman Ambulance Driver

38. Red Cross Nurses

39. Women in the Army Auxiliary

40. Russian Women Soldiers

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

42. Posters: Wartime Propaganda

43. Australian Poster

44. American Poster

45. Financing the War

46. German Poster

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

48. A Multi-Front War

49. The Western Front

50. Trench Warfare

51. Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”

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

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

54. War Is HELL !!

55. Sacrifices in War

56. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

57. The Eastern Front

58. Turkish Cavalry in Palestine

59. T. E. Lawrence & the “Arab Revolt”, 1916-18

60. T. E. Lawrence & Prince Faisal at Versailles, 1918-19

61. America Joins the Allies

62. The Sinking of the Lusitania

63. The Zimmerman Telegram

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. 11 a.m., November 11, 1918

79. 9,000,000 Dead

80. The Somme American Cemetery, France
116,516 Americans Died

81. World War I Casualties

82. 1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies
50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died

83. Turkish Genocide Against Armenians
A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!