1. WWI – The Great War
“Once I lead these people into war, they’ll forget there was ever such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fabric of our national life.” Woodrow Wilson, April 1917

2. Europe in 1914

3. Economic & Imperial Rivalries

4. Aggressive Nationalism

5. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

6. The Assassination: Sarajevo

7. The Assassin:
Gavrilo Princip

8. Who’s To Blame?

9. The Schlieffen Plan

10. 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!

11. Recruitment Posters

13. America Joins the Allies

14. The Sinking of the Lusitania

15. The Zimmerman Telegram

16. The Yanks Are Coming!

17. Americans in the Trenches

18. The Western Front A “War of Attrition”

19. The Western Front

20. A Multi-Front War

21. Trench Warfare

22. Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”

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

24. War Is HELL !!

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

26. Sacrifices in War

27. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

28. Women and the War Effort

29. Financing the War

30. For Recruitment

31. Munitions Workers

32. French Women Factory Workers

33. German Women Factory Workers

34. Working in the Fields

35. A Woman Ambulance Driver

36. Red Cross Nurses

37. Women in the Army Auxiliary

38. Russian Women Soldiers

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

40. Posters: Wartime Propaganda

41. Australian Poster

42. American Poster

43. Financing the War

44. German Poster
Think of Your Children!

45. New Technology

46. French Renault Tank

47. British Tank at Ypres

48. U-Boats

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

50. 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.

51. Looking for the “Red Baron?”

52. The Zeppelin

53. Flame Throwers
Grenade Launchers

54. Poison Gas
Machine Gun

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

56. 9,000,000 Dead

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

58. World War I Casualties