1. Agenda: Home Fun: April 11, 2016 Mustang Monday Flocab
WWI – Causes and new technologies
Home Fun:
1914 Map – stamping tomorrow
FN: Fronts
FN: War of Attrition
Take out the following
FN: Causes of WII
FN: New Technologies of War
Warm-Up - Flocab
Write down 4 facts from the video.
What did you learn about WWI from this video?
3-5 complete sentences
AP Euro Week 13

2. : The World at War
Causes of the Great War

3. Today’s Standard Essential Question
10.5 Students Analyze the causes of World War I
Analyze the causes for entering WWI presented bv leaders from all sides of the Great War, the role of political and economic rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts.
What were the causes of WWI and who do you believe was responsible? Why?
Essential Question

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

5. The European Powder Keg
The 4 M.A.I.N. causes of World War I
Militarism
Alliance System
Imperialism
Nationalism

6. 1. The Alliance System
Triple Entente:
Triple Alliance:

7. Two Armed Camps!
Allied Powers:
Central Powers:

8. 1879 The Dual Alliance Germany and Austria-Hungary made an alliance to protect themselves from Russia
1881 Austro-Serbian Alliance Austria-Hungary made an alliance with Serbia to stop Russia gaining control of Serbia
1882 The Triple Alliance  Germany and Austria- Hungary made an alliance with Italy to stop Italy from taking sides with Russia
1914 Triple Entente (no separate peace) Britain, Russia and France agreed not to sign for peace separately.
1894 Franco-Russian Alliance  Russia formed an alliance with France to protect herself against Germany and Austria-Hungary
1907 Triple Entente  This was made between Russia, France and Britain to counter the increasing threat from Germany.
1907 Anglo-Russian Entente This was an agreement between Britain and Russia
1904 Entente Cordiale This was an agreement, but not a formal alliance, between France and Britain.

10. 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]

11. Europe in 1914

12. 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%

13. 3. Economic & Imperial Rivalries

14. 4. Aggressive Nationalism

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

16. The “Spark”

17. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

18. The Assassination: Sarajevo

19. The Assassin:
Gavrilo Princip

20. All For You Sophia Lyrics Bang bang, Gavrilo Princip Bang bang, shoot me Gavrilo Bang bang, the first six are for you Bang bang, the seventh is for me Bang bang, Gavrilo Princip Bang bang, Europe's going to weep All for you, all for you, all for you, Sophia (x4)
Bang bang, history's complete Bang bang, shoot me Gavrilo Bang bang, the first six are for you Bang bang, the seventh is for me Bang bang, Gavrilo Princip Bang bang, shoot me Gavrilo All for you, all for you, all for you, Sophia (x4) The Black Hand holds the gun The devil takes his run Urban, take the Appel Quay It's June the twenty-eighth The seventh was for me

21. Latin Bridge in Sarajevo

22. A plaque commemorating the location of the Sarajevo assassination and steps of Gavrilo Princip (image taken in 1987, before steps were removed in 1992 and plaque changed from Cyrillic to Latin script)

23. The Great War Begins Old Strategy & New Technology

24. Today’s Standard Essential Question
10.5 Analyze the causes of the Great War (AKA WWI)
examine the geographic factors and theaters of WWI looking specifically at their significance in military decisions.
How was this war different then previous wars?
Essential Question

25. Archduke Assassinated = Alliance System Chain Reaction
1. Austria declares war on Serbia
2. Russia mobilizes troops
4. Germany declares war on France
3. Germany declares war on Russia
6. Britain declares war on Germany
5. Germany invades Belgium

26. Who’s To Blame?

27. German Atrocities in Belgium

28. 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!

29. Recruitment Posters

30. A Young Australian Recruit

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

32. New French Recruits

33. A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier

35. What do these images and the poem tell us about the “mood” of Europeans going into “The Great War”

36. The Schlieffen Plan

37. Germany Strategy Schlieffen Plan  Avoid two-front war
Defeat France quickly, then go back to Russia
Russia's weakness’:
lack of industrialization & railroads
difficult to mobilize
Verdun 300,000 French and German killed
Somme – Brits & Germans lose 500,000

38. The War Begins
Germany invades Belgium (neutral)  Britain declares war
Western Front = Northern border of France & Western Germany
Germans are almost to Paris by Sept. 3
1st Battle of the Marne (9/5/1914): Allies attack Germans;
Germans lose 60 miles; ruins Schlieffen Plan, causing war on two fronts!!

39. The Western Front

40. A Multi-Front War

41. Two Opposing Sides
Triple Alliance  Central Powers – Germany & Austria-Hungary (AH)
later joined by Bulgaria and Ottoman Empire
Triple Entente  Allies – Great Britain (GB), France, & Russia
later joined by Japan, Italy, and United States

42. The Fronts Western Front = Northern France and Western Germany
Eastern Front = Eastern German and Western Russia
Mediterranean Front = in the Mediterranean sea and northern Africa

43. Stalemate & Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare – conflict grinds to halt; huge losses for small gains
500 miles of trenches
Extremely small spaces
Mud, corpses, rats, & stench
miles, from North Sea to Switzerland

44. Trench Warfare

45. In the Trenches

46. Trenches

47. “Over the Top” into “No Man’s Land”

48. Total War
Leave space for definition

49. War Is HELL !!

50. Sacrifices in War

51. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

52. New Technologies of War
Leads to more deaths and stalemate
Machine guns
Larger artillery
Poison gas
Armored tanks
Airplanes
U-boats
Zepplins

53. French Renault Tank

54. British Tank at Ypres

55. Machine Guns
British machine guns fired 8 rounds per second, at a distance of 2,900 yards

56. Artillery Greater power and carried much further
24 million shells were used in the battle of Verdun

57. U-Boats

58. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

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

60. 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.

61. Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant

62. Looking for the “Red Baron?”

63. The Zeppelin

64. Flame Throwers
Grenade Launchers

65. Poison Gas
Machine Gun