1. The 20th Century Challenge:
The Great War

2. What the Great War was like

4. June 28, 1914
Assassination at
Sarajevo

7. The Middle East in 1914

9. Chronology of the War 1914 World War I begins
1915 Germans sink the Lusitania
1917 Unrestricted submarine warfare
Zimmerman telegram
The Bolshevik Revolution
U.S. declares war against Germany
AEF goes to Western Front
Mobilization at home

10. Europe in 1917

12. 1918 Wilson’s Fourteen Points
Freedom of the seas & free trade
Self-determination
Open diplomacy
International peace keeping organization
The Spanish flu pandemic

13. 1918 Armistice—November 11

14. 1919 Paris Peace Conference
Goals of the Big Three
Major terms of the Treaty of Versailles
Europe
The Middle East
The League of Nations
Senate rejection of the League of Nations

15. Europe in 1920

16. The Middle East in 1920

17. What the war meant
Costs: million dead (113,000 Americans); million wounded; economic devastation & starvation;
end of empires; American civil liberties;
despair and cynicism--“civilization is all gone and barbarism comes.”
Benefits: Massive transfer of wealth
from Europe to the U.S. & recognition
of U.S. as a world power