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1914-1914-1919:1919:
The The WorldWorldat Warat War
CausesCausesof theof theWarWar
MilitarismMilitarism
Glorification of the military; race to expand armies & navies
Social Darwinism: War promoted “survival of the fittest”
Britain vs. Germany: needed to protect overseas empires
2. Militarism & Arms Race
1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 191494 130 154 268 289 398
Total Defense Expenditures for the Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br., Great Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br.,
Rus.] Rus.] in millions of £s.in millions of £s.
1910-1914 Increase in Defense
ExpendituresFrance 10%Britain 13%Russia 39%
Germany
73%
Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun
AlliancesAlliances
Nations signed treaties pledging to defend one another
Intended to create powerful combinations that no one would dare to attack
1. The Alliance SystemTriple EntenteTriple Entente:: Triple AllianceTriple Alliance::
Europe in WWI
ImperialismImperialism
Competition for colonies among European nations
France vs. Germany fought for control over the Kingdom of Morocco
Scramble for natural resources, national prestige and military outposts
U.S. Involvement in the Caribbean
European Imperialism in Africa
Aggressive Nationalism
NationalismNationalism
Pride in or devotion to one’s country France: longed to regain its position as
Europe’s leading power; wanted to recover provinces lost to Germany in Franco-Prussian War 1870 (Alsace & Lorraine)
Germany: Proud of empire’s new military & industrial might
NationalismNationalism
Russia: Pan-Slavism or all Slavic peoples shared a common nationality; Russian duty to lead & defend all Slavs
Balkans: Rising nationalism in multinational empires (Austria-Hungary & Ottoman Empire) “Balkan Powder Keg”
Pan-Slavism: The Balkans, 1914
The“Powder
Keg”of Europe
TheThe“Spark“Spark
””
Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family
The Assassination: Sarajevo
The Assassin:GavriloPrincip
Who’s To Blame?
All together now! Into chaos!(Read it fast for maximum effect)
Serbian assassins kill Franz Ferdinand (heir to the Austro-Hungarian thrown)
Austria-Hungry declares war on Serbia Russia (allied with Serbia) declares war on
Austria-Hungry Germany (allied with Austria-Hungry) declares
war on Russia first, then France When German troops cross Belgium to get to
France, Great Britain (allied with Belgium) declares war on Germany
Mobilization Home by Christmas!Home by Christmas! No major war No major war
in 50 years!in 50 years! Nationalism!Nationalism!
Soldiers Mobilized
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France Germany Russia Britain
Mill
ions
The Schlieffen Plan
German Atrocities in Belgium
Two Armed Camps!Allied PowersAllied Powers:: Central PowersCentral Powers::
Central Powers Vs. Allied Powers
Europe in 1914
A Multi-Front War
The War of The War of thethe
Industrial Industrial Revolution:Revolution:
NewNewTechnologyTechnology
U-Boats
Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats
Machine Guns
Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare
““No Man’s No Man’s Land”Land”
Poison Gas
Machine Gun
FlameThrowers
GrenadeLaunchers
Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun
French Renault Tank
British Tank at Ypres
The Airplane
“Squadron Over the Brenta”
Max Edler von Poosch, 1917
The Flying Aces of World War I
Eddie Rickenbacher, US
FrancescoBarraco, It.
Rene PaukFonck, Fr.
Manfred vonRichtoffen, Ger.
[The “Red Baron”]
Willy Coppens deHolthust, Belg.
Eddie “Mick”Mannoch, Br.
The Zeppelin
America’s Economy and The Great War
Spies
“Mata Hari” Real Name: Margareetha Geertruide Zelle German Spy!
Posters:Posters:
WartimeWartimePropaganPropagan
dada
Australian Poster
American Poster
Financing the War
German Poster
Recruitment Posters
Financing the War
For Recruitment
WomenWomenand and thetheWarWar
EffortEffort
Working in the Fields
Munitions Workers
French Women Factory Workers
A Woman Ambulance Driver
Red Cross Nurses
Women in the Army Auxiliary
Russian Women Soldiers
AmericAmericaa
JoinsJoinsthethe
AlliesAllies
The Sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmerman Telegram
A Young Australian Recruit
Financing the War
Recruits of the Central Powers
Austro-Austro-HungariansHungarians
A German A German Soldier Says Soldier Says
Farewell to His Farewell to His MotherMother
New French Recruits
A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier
The YanksAre
Coming!
Americans in the Trenches
The The Western Western Front:Front:
A “War of A “War of
AttritionAttrition””
A Multi-Front War
The Western Front
Verdun – February, 1916
German offensive. Each side had 500,000 casualties.
Sacrifices in War
TheTheEasternEastern
FrontFront
The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915
Turkish Cavalry in Palestine
T. E. Lawrence & the “Arab Revolt”,
1916-18
T. E. Lawrence & Prince Faisal at Versailles, 1918-
19
The Tsar with General Brusilov
TheThe“Colonial“Colonial
””FrontsFronts
Sikh British Soldiers in India
Fighting in Africa
British Sikh Mountain Gunners
Black Soldiers in the German
Schutztruppen[German E. Africa]
Fighting in Africa
3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade
Fighting in Salonika, Greece
French colonial marine infantry fromCochin, China - 1916
““Art”Art”ofof
WorldWorldWar IWar I
“A Street in Arras”John Singer Sargent, 1918
“Oppy Wood” – John Nash, 1917
“Those Who Have Lost Their Names”
Albin Eggar-Linz, 1914
“Gassed and Wounded”Eric Kennington, 1918
“Paths of Glory”C. R. W. Nevinson, 1917
1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies
50,000,000 – 50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died100,000,000 died
11 a.m., November 11, 1918
9,000,0009,000,000 DeadDead
The Somme American Cemetary, France
116,516 Americans Died116,516 Americans Died
World War I Casualties
01,000,0002,000,0003,000,0004,000,0005,000,0006,000,0007,000,0008,000,0009,000,000
10,000,000RussiaGermanyAustria-HungaryFranceGreat BritainItalyTurkeyUS
Turkish Genocide Against Armenians
A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!
Turkish Genocide Against ArmeniansDistricts & Vilayets of
Western Armenia in Turkey 1914 1922Erzerum 215,000 1,500Van 197,000 500Kharbert 204,000 35,000Diarbekir 124,000 3,000Bitlis 220,000 56,000Sivas 225,000 16,800 Other Armenian-populated Sites in Turkey
Western Anatolia 371,800 27,000Cilicia and Northern Syria 309,000 70,000European Turkey 194,000 163,000Trapizond District 73,390 15,000Total 2,133,190 387,800