2. Causes
MANIA

3. Militarism
Alliances (Entangling)
Nationalism
Imperialism
Assassination

4. Entangling Alliances
Initial Dispute: Serbia & A-H
Russia supports Serbia
Germany supports A-H
France supports Russia
Germany’s Schlieffen Plan violates Belgium which pulls in GB

5. Triple Alliance
Italy
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Will become the
Central Powers
Triple Entente
France
Great Britain
Russia
Will become the
Allies

6. Total War Gov’t took control of economies (factories) Rationing
Women joined the workforce→ leads to women's suffrage
Higher Employment
Propaganda

7. Both: Massive Casualties & Destruction
Western Front
Eastern Front
No Trenches
Large land gains
Germany, A-H, Turks vs Russia & Serbs
Trench Warfare
Small land gains
Germany, GB & France
Stalemate
Both: Massive Casualties & Destruction

8. 3 Major Events Armenian Genocide
Ottoman Turks systematically try to eliminate Armenians
US Joins the Allies 1917
German Submarine Warfare sings the Lusitania
Zimmerman Telegram
Russian Rev’n 1918 –
Promising Peace, Bread & Land Lenin signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk w/ Germany which gives up land to Germany & gets Russia out of the war

9. Wilson’s 14 Points Proposed Peace Plan End secret treaties
Freedom of the seas
Free trade
Reduce military
Be fair to colonial ppl
Suggestions for creating new nations w/ self- determination
Nations need to come together to protect each other (would become the League of Nations)

10. Treaty of Versailles Signed Agreement League of Nations
No Germany or Russia
Germany loses A-L & all of its overseas colonies
Germany must decrease military
War Guilt clause
Sole responsibility for WWI
Reparation payments $33 Billion over 30 yrs

11. Effects of WWI Generation of Europeans killed or wounded
Dynasties fall
A-H, Germany (Hohezollern family), Russia (Romanovs)
New Countries Created
League of Nations created to promote Peace
Long-Term Effects
Some nations feel betrayed & resentful w/ outcome
Nationalism & Competition remain

12. Marxism Karl Marx Problem: Workers are exploited
Class struggle is inevitable
Leads to socialism/communism

13. Russian Revolution Czar Nicholas made many mistakes
Russian was being badly beat in the war
Non industrialized so they couldn’t compete
Workers protested at the palace for better conditions-fired on-> Bloody Sunday
Created a Duma (legislative body) then dismissed it
Left his wife in charge at home…Rasputin too much power

14. Czar steps down March Revolution
This uprising/mutiny caused the Czar to step down from power (he was later killed)
The provisional government came into power
Alexander Kerensky led the gov
He stayed in the war (big NO-NO)
Reformers formed “soviets” (local councils)
These gained power and led another revolution in November called the Bolshevik revolution

15. Bolsheviks Lenin led this group
They signed the peace treaty to End WWI
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Some unhappy with the treaty → Civil War in USSR breaks out
Red Army vs White army
Russia becomes the USSR (Communism takes over)

16. Effect on Art/Lit “Lost Generation”
Generation of people born between 1883 and 1900
Disillusioned by WWI.
Pioneered new styles of artistic expression through writing.
Spent considerable amounts of time outside the US

17. Gertrude Stein
Ernest Hemingway
Thomas Eliot
F. Scott Fitzgerald