2. WWI – The Great War “Once I lead these people into war, they’ll forget there was ever such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fabric of our national life.” Woodrow Wilson, April 1917

3. Europe in 1914

4. Economic & Imperial Rivalries

5. Aggressive Nationalism

6. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

7. The Assassination: Sarajevo

8. The Assassin: Gavrilo Princip Gavrilo Princip

9. Who’s To Blame?

10. The Schlieffen Plan

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

12. Recruitment Posters

14. Women and the War Effort

15. Financing the War

16. For Recruitment

17. Munitions Workers

18. French Women Factory Workers

19. German Women Factory Workers

20. Working in the Fields

21. A Woman Ambulance Driver

22. Red Cross Nurses

23. Women in the Army Auxiliary

24. Russian Women Soldiers

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

26. Posters: Wartime Propaganda

27. Australian Poster

28. American Poster

29. Financing the War

30. German Poster Think of Your Children!

31. The Western Front A “War of Attrition”

32. A Multi-Front War

33. The Western Front

34. Trench Warfare

35. “No Man’s Land”

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

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

38. War Is HELL !!

39. Sacrifices in War

40. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

41. America Joins the Allies

42. The Sinking of the Lusitania

43. The Zimmerman Telegram

44. The Yanks Are Coming! The Yanks Are Coming!

45. Americans in the Trenches

46. New Technology

47. French Renault Tank

48. British Tank at Ypres

49. U-Boats

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

51. The Flying Aces of World War I Eddie Rickenbacher, US Francesco Barraco, It. Rene Pauk Fonck, Fr. Manfred von Richtoffen, Ger. [The “Red Baron”] Willy Coppens de Holthust, Belg. Eddie “Mick” Mannoch, Br.

52. Looking for the “Red Baron?”

53. The Zeppelin

54. Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers

55. Poison Gas Machine Gun

56. 11 a.m., November 11, 1918 The Armistice is Signed!

57. 9,000,000 Dead 9,000,000 Dead

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

59. World War I Casualties