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• Why do people believe propaganda?

Unit 4: World War ITable of Contents

1. Title Page (Extra Credit for decorating)

2. Table of Contents

3. World War I Map Activity

4. Marching Towards War

5. 13.1 Assessment 3, 6, 8

6. 13.2 Assessment 1 – 8

7. The Great War (Questions 1-3)

8. 13.3 Assessment 1 – 8

9. All Quiet on the Western Front

10. A Global Conflict / The War Ends

11. WWI is Over, Now What?

12. 13.4 Assessment 2 - 7

A Global Conflict

The Gallipoli Campaign

• Allies attacked the Dardanelles to establish a supply line to Russia

• British, Australian, New Zealand, and French troops against Turkish troops

• Began in Feb 1915, but the Allies retreated in Dec after suffering 250,000 causalities

Germany territories were attached by Allies

The World at War

• Japan seizes German colonies in China and the Pacific

• European colonies throughout Africa attack one another’s colonies

• India fought alongside Britain in Europe

• Gandhi supported Indian participation in hope that Britain would grant Indian Independence after the war

Unrestricted

Submarine

Warfare

Germany would

sink any ship

around Britain

without warning

Governments Wage Total War

• Total War – Governments devoted all their resources to the war effort.

• Factories were switched over to produce goods and munitions for the war

• Anyone that could work was put to work

• Citizens were forced to ration items that were needed for the war

A New Enemy Emerges

• An epidemic of the Spanish Flu spread in 1918

• Killed 20 million people worldwide

(more than the war)

Nearing the End

• With 5.5 million casualties and rising civil unrest, Russia wanted to end its involvement

• November 1917, The Russian Revolution took place and Russia became the Soviet Union

• March 1918, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk which ended the war between them.

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Germany Focuses on the Western Front

• With the help of the U.S., the Allies were able to over power the tired and weakened Central Powers.

• The Bulgarians and Ottomans surrendered

• November 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II stepped down and Germany became a republic

• Germany signed an armistice with the Allies which ended the war.

Results of the War

• 9.5 million dead

• 21 million wounded

• Civilians faced starvation, disease, and slaughter

• Farmland, houses, and towns destroyed

• European countries were drained financially due to the $338 billion dollar war

United States

• US Population in 1910 according to the US Census 92,228,496 (309,300,000 in 2010)

• Deaths - 116,516

• Wounded - 204,002

• World Wide

Homework

• Read 13.4 pg. 424 – 427

• Complete Assessment 13.4 pg. 427 #2 - 7