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Chapter 23-1,2. Identify and analyze America’s involvement in World War I. Long term causes of American Involvement. p. 578. The Triple Alliance – Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary Alarmed Russia Franco Russian Alliance Germany’s navy challenged Britain’s naval superiority - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 23-1,2.
Identify and analyze America’s involvement in World War I
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Long term causes of American Involvement
• The Triple Alliance – Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
• Alarmed Russia Franco Russian Alliance• Germany’s navy challenged Britain’s naval
superiority
• Entente Cordiale (friendly understanding)• Triple Entente
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Triple Alliance
Austria, Germany, Italy
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Triple Entente
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Immediate Causes of the War• Austrian ruler Archduke Franz Ferdinand
visited Bosnia• Bosnian revolutionary Gavrilo Princip shot
Franz Ferdinand• The Black Hand
WWI is referred to as “The Great War”
Bosnian Nationalism
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Dominos fall
• Austria Hungary decided to crush Serbia• They feared Russia might retaliate• Germany promised to help Austria if Russia
interfered. • France promised to support Russia if war
began
Guess what happened…Everyone but Britain went to war!
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Germany Attacks France
• Germany launched a massive invasion of France
• When they went through neutral Belgium, the British entered the war.
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Allies• The Triple
Entente • France, Russia,
Britain• And later… Italy
Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria
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Central Powers
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How it went…
• The German fast attack worked at first came within 30 miles of taking Paris
• Suddenly the Russians attacked the German flank• Germany had to pull troops away from France to
deal with the Russian attack.
• Then fighting settled into trenches – didn’t change for 3 years
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Germany spread across
Europe
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Trench Warfare
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Trench Sleep
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America
• President Wilson wanted America to be neutral
• 8 million German immigrants and 4.5 million Irish supported the Central Powers.
• President Wilson’s cabinet however….
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Propaganda
• Information designed to influence opinion• Britain cut the transatlantic cable so that only
British reports of the war got through
• Claimed: Germans used battlefield corpses to make fertilizer and soap
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Propaganda
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U-Boats • German word “Unterseeboot”
• Germany announced that they would sink any shop in the waters around Britain
• A German sub sank the “Lusitania” killing 1,200 passengers including 128 Americans.
p. 582
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Lusitania – good day
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The Lusitania – bad day
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The Zimmermann Telegram• Arthur Zimmermann cabled
the German ambassador in Mexico
• He proposed that Mexico ally itself with Germany in the event of a US war with Germany.
• He said Mexico could regain its “lost territory in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona”
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Germany resumes sub warfare• Germans believed they could starve Britain out of the
war• They sank 6 American merchant ships• On April 2, 1917 President Wilson asked Congress for
a declaration of War
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Torpedo hits a merchant ship