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. 2. Economic & Imperial Rivalries

9. 3. 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. After the Archduke was killed, a series of events was set in motion, to change the world.
1. A-H declared war on Serbia.
2. Russia mobilized to aid Serbia.
3. Germany aids A-H, declares war on Russia.
4. France mobilizes to aid Russia.
5. Germany declares war on France.
6. Germany invades Belgium.
7. UK declares war on Germany.
8. OE mobilizes to aid Germany and A-H.
9. Italy joins France, UK, and Russia.
10. Bulgaria joins OE, Germany, and A-H.
11. US joins Italy, France, UK, and Russia

17. The Schlieffen Plan

18. German Atrocities in Belgium

19. 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!

20. Recruitment Posters

21. A Young Australian Recruit

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

23. New French Recruits

24. A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier

26. Women and the War Effort

27. Financing the War

28. For Recruitment

29. Munitions Workers

30. French Women Factory Workers

31. German Women Factory Workers

32. Working in the Fields

33. A Woman Ambulance Driver

34. Red Cross Nurses

35. Women in the Army Auxiliary

36. Russian Women Soldiers

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

38. Posters: Wartime Propaganda

39. Australian Poster

40. American Poster

41. Financing the War

42. German Poster
Think of Your Children!

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

44. A Multi-Front War

45. The Western Front

46. Trench Warfare

47. Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”

48. Sacrifices in War

49. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

50. America Joins the Allies

51. The Sinking of the Lusitania

52. The Zimmerman Telegram

53. The Yanks Are Coming!

54. Americans in the Trenches

55. The War of the Industrial Revolution: New Technology

56. French Renault Tank

57. British Tank at Ypres

58. U-Boats

59. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

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

61. 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.

62. Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant

63. Looking for the “Red Baron?”

64. The Zeppelin

65. Flame Throwers
Grenade Launchers

66. Poison Gas
Machine Gun

67. “Art” of World War I

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

69. “Oppy Wood” – John Nash, 1917

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

71. “Gassed and Wounded” Eric Kennington, 1918

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

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

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

75. 9,000,000 Dead

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

77. World War I Casualties

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

79. 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