1914-1918: the world at war
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1914-1918: The World at War. Causes of the War. 1. The Alliance System. Triple Entente :. Triple Alliance :. Two Armed Camps!. Allied Powers :. Central Powers :. The Major Players: 1914-17. Allied Powers :. Central Powers :. Nicholas II [Rus]. Wilhelm II [Ger]. George V [Br]. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
1914-1918:
The Worldat War
Causesof theWar
1. The Alliance SystemTriple Entente: Triple Alliance:
Two Armed Camps!Allied Powers: Central Powers:
The Major Players: 1914-17
Nicholas II [Rus]
George V [Br]
Pres. Poincare [Fr]
Allied Powers:
Franz Josef [A-H]
Wilhelm II [Ger]
Victor Emmanuel II [It]
Central Powers:
Enver Pasha[Turkey]
Europe in 1914
2. Militarism & Arms Race
1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 191494 130 154 268 289 398
Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br.,
Rus.] in millions
1910-1914 Increase in Defense
ExpendituresFrance 10%Britain 13%Russia 39%
Germany
73%
3. Economic & Imperial Rivalries
4. Aggressive Nationalism
Pan-Slavism: The Balkans, 1914
The“Powder
Keg”of Europe
The
“Spark”
Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family
The Assassination: Sarajevo
The Assassin:GavriloPrincip
Who’s To Blame?
The Schlieffen Plan
German Atrocities in Belgium
Mobilization
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!
Recruitment Posters
Recruits of the Central Powers
Austro-Hungarians
A German Soldier Says
Farewell to His Mother
New French Recruits
Soldiers Mobilized
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
France Germany Russia Britain
Mill
ions
Posters:
WartimePropagan
da
Australian Poster
American Poster
Financing the War
German Poster
Think of Your Children!
The Western Front:
A “War of
Attrition”
A Multi-Front War
The Western Front
Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”
Verdun – February, 1916
e German offensive.e Each side had 500,000
casualties.
The Somme – July, 1916
e 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day.
e Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.
War Is HELL !!
Sacrifices in War
Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun
America
Joinsthe
Allies
The Sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmerman Telegram
The YanksAre
Coming!
Americans in the Trenches
The War of the
Industrial Revolution:
NewTechnology
French Renault Tank
British Tank at Ypres
U-Boats
Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats
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.
Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant
Looking for the “Red Baron?”
The Zeppelin
FlameThrowers
GrenadeLaunchers
Poison Gas
Machine Gun
1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies
50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died
11 a.m., November 11, 1918
The Armistice is Signed!
9,000,000 Dead
The Somme American Cemetary, France
116,516 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