1. By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY
: The World at War
By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY

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. 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

16. Who’s To Blame?

18. The Schlieffen Plan

19. German Atrocities in Belgium

20. 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!

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

23. A Multi-Front War

24. The Western Front

25. Trench Warfare

26. Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”

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

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

29. War Is HELL !!

30. Sacrifices in War

31. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

32. The Eastern Front

33. The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915

34. Turkish Cavalry in Palestine

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

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

37. The “Colonial” Fronts

38. Sikh British Soldiers in India

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

40. 3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade
Fighting in Africa
3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade

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

42. America Joins the Allies

43. The Sinking of the Lusitania

44. The Zimmerman Telegram

45. The Yanks Are Coming!

46. Americans in the Trenches

47. The War of the Industrial Revolution: New Technology

48. French Renault Tank

49. British Tank at Ypres

50. U-Boats

51. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

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

53. 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.

54. Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant

55. Looking for the “Red Baron?”

56. The Zeppelin

57. Flame Throwers
Grenade Launchers

58. Poison Gas
Machine Gun

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

60. 1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies
50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died

61. 11 a.m., November 11, 1918

62. 9,000,000 Dead

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

64. World War I Casualties

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

66. Turkish Genocide Against Armenians
Turkish Genocide of Armenians ( )
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