1. : The World at 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:

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

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. 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. The Schlieffen Plan

17. German Atrocities in Belgium

18. 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!

19. Recruitment Posters

20. A Young Australian Recruit

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

22. New French Recruits

23. A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier

25. Women and the War Effort

26. Financing the War

27. For Recruitment

28. Munitions Workers

29. French Women Factory Workers

30. German Women Factory Workers

31. Working in the Fields

32. A Woman Ambulance Driver

33. Red Cross Nurses

34. Women in the Army Auxiliary

35. Russian Women Soldiers

36. Posters: Wartime Propaganda

37. Australian Poster

38. American Poster

39. Financing the War

40. German Poster
Think of Your Children!

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

42. A Multi-Front War

43. The Western Front

44. Trench Warfare

45. Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”

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

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

48. War Is HELL !!

49. Sacrifices in War

50. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

51. The Eastern Front

52. The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915

53. Turkish Cavalry in Palestine

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

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

56. The Tsar with General Brusilov

57. The “Colonial” Fronts

58. Sikh British Soldiers in India

59. Fighting in Africa
Black Soldiers in the German Schutztruppen [German E. Africa]
British Sikh Mountain Gunners

60. 3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade
Fighting in Africa
3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade

61. Fighting in Salonika, Greece
French colonial marine infantry from Cochin, China

62. America Joins the Allies

63. The Sinking of the Lusitania

64. The Zimmerman Telegram

65. The Yanks Are Coming!

66. Americans in the Trenches

67. The War of the Industrial Revolution: New Technology

68. French Renault Tank

69. British Tank at Ypres

70. U-Boats

71. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

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

73. 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.

74. Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant

75. Looking for the “Red Baron?”

76. The Zeppelin

77. Flame Throwers
Grenade Launchers

78. Poison Gas
Machine Gun

79. “Art” of World War I

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

81. “Oppy Wood” – John Nash, 1917

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

83. “Gassed and Wounded” Eric Kennington, 1918

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

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

86. 1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies
50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died

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

88. 9,000,000 Dead

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

90. World War I Casualties

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

92. Turkish Genocide Against Armenians
Districts & Vilayets of Western Armenia in Turkey
1914
1922
Erzerum
215,000
1,500
Van
197,000
500
Kharbert
204,000
35,000
Diarbekir
124,000
3,000
Bitlis
220,000
56,000
Sivas
225,000
16,800
Other Armenian-populated Sites in Turkey
Western Anatolia
371,800
27,000
Cilicia and Northern Syria
309,000
70,000
European Turkey
194,000
163,000
Trapizond District
73,390
15,000
Total
2,133,190
387,800