1. Major Events

2. A War of Movement?  Original ideas about the “ Great War ” Schlieffen Plan First Battle of the Marne  “ Race to the sea ”  Trench warfare -> stalemate -> war of attrition Battle of Verdun (1916)  “ Bleed France white ”  Symbol of French resistence Battle of the Somme (1916)  Allied offensive, record 1/3 lost in first day  Relieve Verdun

3. Life in the Trenches  Daily death and boredom No man ’ s land  Unsanitary Conditions Rats and other pests Trench fever and foot Overpowering smell  Trench cycle  Unofficial truces  http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=SXtsiqrh qsU http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=SXtsiqrh qsU

4. Eastern Front  Battle of Tannenberg (Aug – Sept 1914) Troops unprepared German ’ s outmaneuver and defeat Russians  Russian Weaknesses Supplying troops Less modern  Russian Strengths Population  Russian Civil War & Revolution in 1917 Nicholas II abdicates, then murdered Bolsheviks take power – pull Russia out of the war

5. Gallipoli Campaign  Stalemate on Western Front  Allies attempted to capture Istanbul (Turkish capital) and gain sea route to Russia  Participation of Australian and New Zealand Forces  Victory for Ottoman Empire and rise of Mustafa Kemal  250,000 casualties for the Allies

6. Armenian Massacre  Ottoman officials claimed Armenians would side with Russians  At least 500,000 perished between 1914-1918  Present controversy  Armin Wegner AudioAudio  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =4Wj6esqjWws&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =4Wj6esqjWws&feature=related

7. Asia and Africa  Great Britain eager to collect new colonies in Africa – German East African Colonies Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda  Asian Theater largely bloodless conquest of German colonial possessions by the Japanese and Chinese  End of WWI marked end of short-lived overseas German Empire