1. By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY
: The World at War
By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H. S. Chappaqua, NY

2. Differing Viewpoints “Family Feud” “Fall of the Eagles”
“The War to End All Wars”
“The War to ‘Make the World Safe for Democracy’”

3. Causes of the War

4. 1. The Alliance System
Triple Entente:
Triple Alliance:

5. Two Armed Camps!
Allied Powers:
Central Powers:

6. Victor Emmanuel II [It]
The Major Players:
Allied Powers:
Central Powers:
Nicholas II [Rus]
Wilhelm II [Ger]
George V [Br]
Victor Emmanuel II [It]
Enver Pasha [Turkey]
Pres. Poincare [Fr]
Franz Josef [A-H]

7. Europe in 1914

8. 1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures
2. Militarism & Arms Race
Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br., Rus.] in millions of £s.
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
1914 94
130
154
268
289
398
Increase in Defense Expenditures
France
10%
Britain
13%
Russia
39%
Germany
73%

9. 3. Economic & Imperial Rivalries

10. 4. Aggressive Nationalism

11. Pan-Slavism: The Balkans, 1914 The “Powder Keg” of Europe

12. The “Spark”

13. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

14. The Assassination: Sarajevo

15. The Assassin:
Gavrilo Princip

16. Who’s To Blame?

17. The Schlieffen Plan

18. German Atrocities in Belgium

19. Mobilization Home by Christmas! No major war in 50 years! Nationalism!
It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go;
To the sweetest girl I know!
Goodbye, Piccadilly,
Farewell, Leicester Square,
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there!

20. Recruitment Posters

21. A Young Australian Recruit

22. Recruits of the Central Powers
A German Soldier Says Farewell to His Mother
Austro-Hungarians

23. New French Recruits

24. A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier

26. Women and the War Effort

27. Financing the War

28. For Recruitment

29. Munitions Workers

30. French Women Factory Workers

31. German Women Factory Workers

32. Working in the Fields

33. A Woman Ambulance Driver

34. Red Cross Nurses

35. Women in the Army Auxiliary

36. Russian Women Soldiers

37. Spies
“Mata Hari”
Real Name: Margareetha Geertruide Zelle
German Spy!

38. Posters: Wartime Propaganda

39. Australian Poster

40. American Poster

41. Financing the War

42. German Poster
Think of Your Children!

43. The Western Front: A “War of Attrition”

44. A Multi-Front War

45. The Western Front

46. Trench Warfare

47. Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”

48. Verdun – February, 1916 German offensive.
Each side had 500,000 casualties.

49. The Somme – July, 1916 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day.
Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.

50. War Is HELL !!

51. Sacrifices in War

52. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

53. The Eastern Front

54. The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915

55. Turkish Cavalry in Palestine

56. T. E. Lawrence & the “Arab Revolt”, 1916-18

57. T. E. Lawrence & Prince Faisal at Versailles, 1918-19

58. The Tsar with General Brusilov

59. The “Colonial” Fronts

60. Sikh British Soldiers in India

61. Fighting in Africa
Black Soldiers in the German Schutztruppen [German E. Africa]
British Sikh Mountain Gunners

62. 3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade
Fighting in Africa
3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade

63. Fighting in Salonika, Greece
French colonial marine infantry from Cochin, China

64. America Joins the Allies

65. The Sinking of the Lusitania

66. The Zimmerman Telegram

67. The Yanks Are Coming!

68. Americans in the Trenches

69. The War of the Industrial Revolution: New Technology

70. French Renault Tank

71. British Tank at Ypres

72. U-Boats

73. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

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

75. 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.

76. Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant

77. Looking for the “Red Baron?”

78. The Zeppelin

79. Flame Throwers
Grenade Launchers

80. Poison Gas
Machine Gun

81. “Art” of World War I

82. “A Street in Arras” John Singer Sargent, 1918

83. “Oppy Wood” – John Nash, 1917

84. “Those Who Have Lost Their Names” Albin Eggar-Linz, 1914

85. “Gassed and Wounded” Eric Kennington, 1918

86. “Paths of Glory” C. R. W. Nevinson, 1917

87. German Cartoon: “Fit for active service!”, 1918

88. 1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies
50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died

89. The Armistice is Signed!
11 a.m., November 11, 1918
The Armistice is Signed!

90. 9,000,000 Dead

91. The Somme American Cemetary, France
116,516 Americans Died

92. World War I Casualties

93. Turkish Genocide Against Armenians
A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!

94. Turkish Genocide Against Armenians
Districts & Vilayets of Western Armenia in Turkey
1914
1922
Erzerum
215,000
1,500
Van
197,000
500
Kharbert
204,000
35,000
Diarbekir
124,000
3,000
Bitlis
220,000
56,000
Sivas
225,000
16,800
Other Armenian-populated Sites in Turkey
Western Anatolia
371,800
27,000
Cilicia and Northern Syria
309,000
70,000
European Turkey
194,000
163,000
Trapizond District
73,390
15,000
Total
2,133,190
387,800