1. World War One
Total War -Entire resources and people are mobilized towards the war effort, which takes priority over everything else. Total War involves carrying out the war against the entire population of the enemy, not just against its military.

2. Europe and the Great Powers
Great Britain
France
Russia
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Italy

3. Rivalries
Lots of rivalries in Europe at this time. Countries all want to be strong and they competing with each other.
Competed over:
Navies and Armies
Power and influence
Land and Empires

4. Weapons of World War I
Airplanes and Machine guns were used for the first time during World War One.
Poison gas, tanks, submarines and balloons were also used
Weapons

5. A French soldier in an early gas mask.
Weapons of World War I
British soldiers victims of a poison gas attack.

6. Modes of Communication
The men who served in the war used various modes of communication.
Telephones with long wires that linked to switchboards were used.
The radio was used widely and Morse Code was transmitted and received.
Carrier pigeons and dogs were used to transport messages in the heat of battle.

7. Modes of Communication

8. Life in the Trenches
Trench warfare was used in the Western front in WWI.
Stalemate
No Man’s Land
Diseases
Video

9. Life in the Trenches

10. Christmas Truce of 1914

11. Propaganda in World War I
Propaganda ensured that people only got to know what their governments wanted them to know about the war.
Went to great lengths to blacken the enemy
Newspaper headlines were also used to anger public about the enemy.

12. Propaganda in World War I
Soldier bayonets a baby
Britain's portrayal of Germany

13. Propaganda in World War I

14. Women in WWI
Nurses
Munitions Factory workers- produced 80% of weapons and shells used in the war
Used in Propaganda Posters
Worked in Shipyards
Spies

15. Women in WWI

16. Women in WWI
Russia’s First Women's Battalion

17. Where was the USA?
The United States were isolationism and believed that they should not get involved in making alliances with other nations.
The United States also believed that they should avoid war unless in self-defense.
The United States also wanted to prevent trade and cultural exchange.

18. Reasons for US Involvement
Inability to remain neutral
German submarine warfare
Sinking of the Lusitania in 1915

19. Zimmerman Note The Zimmerman note was the last straw
Communication intercepted that Germany sent to Mexico of an alliance in the event of the United States entering the war.

20. The End of World War I
World War One ended in an armistice, an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time on November 11, 1918.
Officially ended on June 28, 1919 with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Germany blamed for the war and made to pay huge reparations,

21. Death Toll Estimated that 9 million deaths of soldiers
and 7 million deaths
of civilians. 20 million more
wounded

22. War Damage
France, The village buildings completely wrecked by intense fighting between British Allied forces and the German army.
France, Extensive damage resulting from the German Army blowing up the street before it departed