1. : The World at War

2. Causes of the War

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

4. 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]

5. Europe in 1914

6. 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%

7. 3. Economic & Imperial Rivalries

8. 4. Aggressive Nationalism

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

10. The “Spark”

11. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

12. The Assassination: Sarajevo

13. The Assassin:
Gavrilo Princip

15. 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!

17. Who’s To Blame?

18. The Schlieffen Plan

19. A Multi-Front War

20. The Western Front

21. Trench Warfare

22. Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”

23. Inside Trenches

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

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

26. War Is HELL !!

27. Sacrifices in War

28. New Weapons
Poison Gas - Introduced by the Germans but used by both sides .
Machine Gun
Tanks – Introduced by the British at the Battle of Somme.
Submarines – Introduced by the Germans.

29. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

30. British Tank at Ypres

31. 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.

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

33. The Zeppelin

34. Poison Gas
Machine Gun

35. French Renault Tank

36. Flame Throwers
Grenade Launchers

37. A Global Conflict
Chapter 29-3

38. The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915

39. U-Boats

40. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

41. The Sinking of the Lusitania

42. The Zimmerman Telegram

43. The Yanks Are Coming!

44. Americans in the Trenches

45. French Women Factory Workers

46. German Women Factory Workers

47. German Poster
Think of Your Children!

48. Red Cross Nurses

49. American Poster

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

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

52. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

53. Legacy of WWI
Human Costs: 9 million dead, 20 million wounded, 5 million civilians died of disease and starvation.
Country
Dead
Wounded
Russia
2 million
5 million
France
1.4 million
4.3 million
Britain
900,00
2.1 million
Germany
1.8 million
4.2 million
Austria
1.2 million
3.6 million
USA
100,000
200,000
TOTAL
8.5 million
21 million

54. Legacy of the War
Economic Costs – The cost of the war was nearly $400 billion. From $85,000 a minutes was spent to fund the war. In 1918 it reached $170,000 a minute.
Social Costs – Millions disillusioned, entire generation of young men lost. Became known as the lost generation.