1. : The World at War

2. Causes of the War

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

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

5. 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]

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. 4. Aggressive Nationalism

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

9. The “Spark”

10. OR, HOW A SANDWICH CAUSED A WORLD WAR

11. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

12. The Assassination: Sarajevo

13. The Assassin:
Gavrilo Princip

14. Who’s To Blame?

15. German Atrocities in Belgium

16. 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. Recruitment Posters

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

19. New French Recruits

20. A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier

22. Financing the War

23. For Recruitment

24. Posters: Wartime Propaganda

25. Australian Poster

26. American Poster

27. Financing the War

28. German Poster
Think of Your Children!

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

30. Trench Warfare

31. Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”

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

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

34. War Is HELL !!

35. Sacrifices in War

36. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

37. The Eastern Front

38. Turkish Cavalry in Palestine

39. The “Colonial” Fronts

40. Sikh British Soldiers in India

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

42. 3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade
Fighting in Africa
3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade

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

44. America Joins the Allies

45. The Sinking of the Lusitania

46. The Zimmerman Telegram

47. Americans in the Trenches

48. The War of the Industrial Revolution: New Technology

49. French Renault Tank

50. British Tank at Ypres

51. U-Boats

52. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

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

54. Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant

55. Looking for the “Red Baron?”

56. The Zeppelin

57. Flame Throwers
Grenade Launchers

58. 1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies
50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died

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

60. 9,000,000 Dead

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

62. World War I Casualties