2. 1914-1918: The World at War 1914-1918: The World at War

4. The “ Spark ”

6. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

7. Black Hand

8. The Assassin: Gavrilo Princip Gavrilo Princip

10. The Assassination: Sarajevo

11. Who’s To Blame?

12. "The Great War was without precedent... never had so many nations taken up arms at a single time. Never had the battlefield been so vast… never had the fighting been so gruesome...“ "World War I marked the first use of chemical weapons, the first mass bombardment of civilians from the sky, and the century's first genocide..."

13. Overview  1914-1918  65 million Soldiers fought  9 million died  20 million wounded  Total War  Timeline: – http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/timeline/time_19 14.html http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/timeline/time_19 14.html

14. Causes of the War

15. 1. System of Alliances

16. Alliances during the War Allied Powers: Central Powers: http://encarta.msn.com/media_681500232_761569981_-1_1/allied_and_central_powers_of_world_war_i.html

19. 2. Militarism

20. 3. Imperialism Economic & Imperial Rivalries 3. Imperialism Economic & Imperial Rivalries

21. 4. Aggressive Nationalism

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

23. The Schlieffen Plan

25. Posters: Wartime Propaganda

26. Australian Poster

27. American Poster

28. Financing the War

29. German Poster

30. The Western Front: A “ War of Attrition ” http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/index.htm

31. A Multi-Front War

32. The Western Front

33. Trench Warfare http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/chapters/ch1_trench.html

34. Trench Warfare “No Man’s Land”

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

36. 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.

37. War Is HELL !!

38. Sacrifices in War

39. The Eastern Front

40. The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915

41. Turkish Cavalry in Palestine

42. The “ Colonial ” Fronts

43. Sikh British Soldiers in India

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

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

46. Fighting in Salonika, Greece French colonial marine infantry from Cochin, China - 1916

47. America Joins the Allies

48. The Sinking of the Lusitania

49. The Zimmerman Telegram

50. The Yanks Are Coming! The Yanks Are Coming!

51. Americans in the Trenches

52. The War of the Industrial Revolution: New Technology

53. French Renault Tank

54. British Tank at Ypres

55. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

56. U-Boats

57. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

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

59. The Zeppelin

60. Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers

61. Poison Gas Machine Gun

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

63. 1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies 50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died 50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died

64. 11 a.m., November 11, 1918

65. Over 9,000,000 Dead Over 9,000,000 Dead

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

67. World War I Casualties

68. “Flawed Peace” The Treaty of Versailles and Wilson’s Fourteen Points

69. Paris Peace Conference  Delegates from 32 countries met to create peace treaty  Big Four: Woodrow Wilson (US), Georges Clemenceau (France), David Lloyd George (GB) and Vittorio Orlando (Italy) – Why wasn’t Russia there?

70. Wilson’s Plan…  Fourteen Points:

71. Europe’s Plan  Treaty of Versailles: