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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] George V [Br] Victor Emmanuel II [It] Wilhelm II [Ger]

Enver Pasha [Turkey] Pres. Poincare [Fr] Franz Josef [A-H]

Europe in 1914

2. Militarism & Arms Race


Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br., Rus.] in millions of s.
1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1914

94

130

154

268

289

398

1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures


France Britain 10% 13%

Russia
Germany

39%
73%

3. Economic & Imperial Rivalries

4. Aggressive Nationalism

The Spark

Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

The Assassination: Sarajevo

The Assassin:
Gavrilo Princip

Whos To Blame?

The Schlieffen Plan

German Atrocities in Belgium

Recruitment Posters

A Young Australian Recruit

Recruits of the Central Powers


A German Soldier Says Farewell to His Mother

AustroHungarians

New French Recruits

A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier

Women and the War Effort

For Recruitment

Munitions Workers

French Women Factory Workers

Working in the Fields

A Woman Ambulance Driver

Red Cross Nurses

Women in the Army Auxiliary

Russian Women Soldiers

Spies
Mata Hari Real Name: Margareetha Geertruide Zelle German Spy!

Posters:
Wartime Propaganda

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

Verdun February, 1916

German offensive. Each side had 500,000 casualties.

The Somme July, 1916

60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.

War Is HELL !!

Sacrifices in War

The Eastern Front

The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915

Turkish Cavalry in Palestine

The Colonial Fronts

Sikh British Soldiers in India

Fighting in Africa

Black Soldiers in the German Schutztruppen [German E. Africa] British Sikh Mountain Gunners

Fighting in Africa

3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade

Fighting in Salonika, Greece

French colonial marine infantry from Cochin, China - 1916

The War of the Industrial Revolution:


New Technology

French Renault Tank

U-Boats

The Airplane

Squadron Over the Brenta Max Edler von Poosch, 1917

The Zeppelin

Flame Throwers

Grenade Launchers

Poison Gas

Machine Gun

The war ends


1917 Russia surrenders (a separate peace) U.S. joins the war on the Allied side Nov. 11, 1918 Armistice

Death Toll of War


Allied Powers
42 million served

Central Powers
23 million served

22 million casualties

15 million casualties

The Somme American Cemetary, France

116,516 Americans Died

Social Impact
Men lost limbs and were mutilated Birthrate fell markedly Invalids unable to work Ethnic hostility Influenza epidemic

Psychological impact
Never such innocence again Bitterness towards aristocratic officers whose lives were never in danger

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