1. How does World War I become a total war?
The World at War
How does World War I become a total war?

2. A Total War
The Great War starts effecting all citizens of the world
To pay for the war, countries issue war bonds (I.O.U’s to gov)
Governments told factories to produce only war munitions and every citizen was put to work, esp. women, building weapons in factories
Many women also went out to the front to serve as nurses
Countries start devoting all resources to the war & must ration goods when supplies are low
To rally citizens & colonies propaganda was widely used

3. 8)United States enters the war in 1917 on the side of the Allies.
1)Main fighting of the war occurs in Europe on Western & Eastern fronts
2)Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey. Arab Nationalists fight against Ottoman Empire in Middle East
7)Canada & Ireland join Britain
8)United States enters the war in 1917 on the side of the Allies.
4)Japan declares war on Germany & takes German possessions in China & the Pacific.
5)India provides 1.3 million men to help British on W. Front
9)Brazil is the only South American country involved in war, supplies troops and ships to Allies
6)European colonies in Africa become a battlefield as each strikes the other’s possessions.
3)Both Australia & New Zealand send troops to help in Gallipoli Campaign & later the W. Front