1. : The World at War
A very brief overview

2. Differing Viewpoints “The Great War” “The War to End All Wars”
“The War to ‘Make the World Safe for Democracy’”

3. What do we know? Crash Course?
World War I
What do we know? Crash Course?
Causes?
Who is involved?
Significant events/people/countries?
What’s the big deal?
How/why was WW I different from any previous conflict?

4. Causes of the War

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

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

7. Europe in 1914

8. 3. Economic & Imperial Rivalries

9. 4. 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. Recruitment Posters

18. American Poster

19. A Multi-Front War

20. Trench Warfare

21. Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”

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

23. War Is HELL !!

24. Sacrifices in War

25. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

26. Sikh British Soldiers in India

27. The Sinking of the Lusitania

28. The Zimmerman Telegram

29. The Yanks Are Coming!

30. Americans in the Trenches

31. The War of the Industrial Revolution: New Technology

32. French Renault Tank

33. British Tank at Ypres

34. U-Boats

35. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

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

37. Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant

38. Looking for the “Red Baron?”

39. The Zeppelin

40. Flame Throwers
Grenade Launchers

41. Poison Gas
Machine Gun

42. “Art” of World War I

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

44. “Oppy Wood” – John Nash, 1917

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

46. “Gassed and Wounded” Eric Kennington, 1918

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

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

49. 1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies
50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died

50. Major Features of the Great War
Stalemate
Trench warfare
Industrial weapons
“Shell shock”
Influenza

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

52. 17,000,000 Dead

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

54. World War I Casualties

55. The Damage 37.4 million casualties
Then there was the flu ( million)
$186 billion (in 1918 money!)= $3 trillion

56. Now what? Who is responsible? Who pays?
What happens to try to avoid another war?
Peace conference at Versailles, France