1. The Great War: The War to End All Wars
World War I
The Great War:
The War to End All Wars

2. Cause #1
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered (started) World War I.

3. Cause #2 The Rise of Nationalism
Nationalism—the belief that loyalty to a person's nation (country) comes before anything else.
Your nation is the best!

4. Cause #3 A Build-up of the Military
Advances in Technology
Submarine
Steam ships
Machine Gun
Poision Gas
Airplane
Zeppelin (blimp)

5. French Renault Tank
British Tank

6. U-Boats / Submarine

7. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

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

9. 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.

10. Poison Gas
Machine Gun

11. Flame Throwers
Grenade Launchers

12. Zeppelins (blimps)

13. Trench Warfare

14. Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”

15. Cause #4 Competition for Colonies
European nations competed for colonies in Africa and much of Asia.
The race for colonies was fueled by Europe's increasing industrialization (factories).
Colonies supplied European nations with natural resources for factories and markets to sell their goods.

17. Cause #5 The Alliance System
Countries joined alliances (agreements to protect each other) in case of war
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) Central Powers Vs
United Kingdom, France, and Russia (Allied Powers)
United States would join the war on the side of the Allied Powers in 1917.

18. Cause #4 The Alliance System
Triple Entente:
Triple Alliance:

20. The Armistice (agreement to stop fighting) is Signed!
11 a.m., November 11, 1918
The Armistice (agreement to stop fighting) is Signed!

21. Consequences of World War I
Destruction and Casualties
Economic Consequences
Political Consequences
Social Consequences

22. Destruction and Casualties
Improved artillery, machine guns, and other advanced weapons proved much more deadly
Learning how to fight against the new weapons cost many lives.
No one knows how many civilians died of disease, starvation, and other war-related causes.
The fighting wrecked factories, bridges, and railroad tracks.

23. World War I Casualties

24. 9,000,000 Dead

25. Economic Consequences
World War I cost the fighting nations a total of about $337 billion (in 1918 dollars).
By 1918, the war was costing about $10 million an hour.

26. Political Consequences
Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia became independent countries.
The Ottoman Empire was broken up and countries were placed under the control of France and the United Kingdom.
The rest of the Ottoman Empire became Turkey.

28. Social Consequences Lowered birth rates (so many men died in the war)
Many countries granted women the right to vote after the war.
Populations moved into the cities