29.2 EUROPE PLUNGES INTO WAR

WORLD HISTORYPETERSON SCHOOLMR.HOOD

MAIN IDEA

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.

ONE EUROPEAN NATION AFTER ANOTHER WAS DRAWN INTO A LARGE AND INDUSTRIALIZAED WAR THAT RESULTED IN MANY CASUALTIES.

WHY IT MATTERS NOW

MUCH OF THE TECHNOLOGY OF MODERN WARFARE, SUCH AS FIGHTER PLANES AND TANKS, WAS INTODUCED IN WORLD WAR I.

BY 1914 EUROPE WAS DIVIDED

2 RIVAL GROUPS

THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE

THE TRIPLE ENTENTE

GAVRILO PRINCIP MURDERED ARCHDUKE

FRANZ FERDINAND

AUSTRIA - HUNGARY

DECLARED WAR ON SERBIA

ALLIANCE SYSTEM SET OFF A CHAIN

REACTION

LARGEST + MOST DESTRUCTIVE WAR WORLD

HAD SEEN YET

OBJECTIVE 1DESCRIBE THE

REACTION TO AUSTRIA´S DECLARATION OF

WAR

AUSTRIA - HUNGARY DECLARED

WAR ON SERBIA

RUSSIA SUPPORTED SERBIA

GERMANY SUPPORTED AUSTRIA

- HUNGARY

GERMANS DECLARED WAR

ON RUSSIA

GERMANS DECLARED WAR

ON FRANCE

BRITAIN DECLARED WAR ON

GERMANY

ALLIANCE SYSTEM

DRAGGED EVERYONE INTO WAR

THE CENTRAL POWERS

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY + GERMANY

THE ALLIED POWERS

GREAT BRITAIN + FRANCE + RUSSIA

BATTLE LINES CLEARLY DRAWN

MILLIONS MARCHED HAPPILY

OFF TO BATTLE

MOST CONVINCED

WAR WOULD BE SHORT

THIS WOULD NOT

BE THE CASE

OBJECTIVE 2SUMMARIZE

MILITARY EVENTS ON THE

WESTERN FRONT

GERMANY FACED WAR ON TWO

FRONTS

GERMANY SANDWICHED BETWEEN

FRANCE + RUSSIA

SO GERMANS CAME UP WITH SCLIEFFEN

PLAN

FIRST DEFEAT FRANCE

THEN DEFEAT RUSSIA

BUT GERMAN PLAN FAILED

NO QUICK VICTORY

INSTEAD, WAR WAS LONG + BLOODY

STALEMATE

WESTERN FRONT

ALLIES V CENTRAL POWERS

DEADLY STALEMATE

LASTED 1914 - 1918

FOUGHT FROM TRENCHES

TRENCH WARFARE WAS PURE MISERY

BETWEEN RIVAL TRENCHES WAS “NO

MANS LAND”

WAR HAD NEW TECHNOLOGY +

WEAPONS

TECHNOLOGY KILLED MORE

PEOPLE FASTER

SLAUGHTER

REACHED ITS PEAK IN 1916

BATTLE OF VERDUN EACH SIDE

LOST 300,00 MEN

BATTLE OF SOMME 1

MILLION MEN LOST

MILLIONS OF LIVES LOST

FOR NOTHING

OBJECTIVE 3EXPLAIN THE

DEVELOPMENT OF THE WAR ON THE EASTERN FRONT

MILLIONS ALSO SENT TO EASTERN

FRONT

SIMILAR SLAUGHTER + STALEMATE

RUSSIA NEAR COLLAPSE

RUSSIA NOT YET

INDUSTRIALIZED

SHORT ON MATERIALS

RUSSIA DID HAVE SOLDIERS

CENTRAL POWERS OCCUPIED EAST

AND WEST