Title: The Great War
1The Great War
2Prelude the July Crisis of 1914
3I. August 1914 THE GREAT WAR BEGINS
Germanys Schlieffen Plan
4Opening Battles
5War Aims
6The Experience of War
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10The Experience of War
- VERDUN (1916)
- The SOMME (1916)
- WHAT WAS UNIQUE TO THE EXPERIENCE OF WORLD WAR I?
11II. The Home Front
12HOW DID THE WAR AFFECT PEOPLE WHO WERENT
SOLDIERS?
13Wartime Politics
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Tsar Nicholas II family
HOW DID THE WAR AFFECT POLITICAL LEADERS?
POLITICAL PARTIES? POLITICAL AGENDAS?
14Propaganda Censorship
15War Transforms Society
16World War I profoundly changed just about
everything
- The Economy
- Social Structure
- Core Human Values
- Political Parties Agenda
- THE SIZE AND ROLE OF THE STATE
17III. FROM WAR FEVER TO REVOLUTION
- The war provoked BIZARRE mob-like behavior
- First PRO-WAR hysteria (systematically
encouraged by the State)
18Then growing anti-War Protest
RUSSIAN ANTI-WAR PROTESTORS OUTSIDE THE WINTER
PALACE, St. Petersburg, 1917
19THEN FAILED STATES
- The strange phenomenon of FAILED STATES
- Symptoms mobs in the streets all state-services
fail economy crashes multiple bands of gunmen
20Classic Case of the Failed StateThe Russian
Revolution
21The Russian Civil War
- 1. Pro-War Parades
- 2. Savage Cost of War
- 3. Anti-War Protests
- 4. Govt v. Protesters
- 5. COLLAPSE OF STATE (The 1917 Revolution)
- CIVIL WAR (1917-21)
- COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP
22IV. THE GREAT WAR ENDS
23FAILED STATES The Struggle to End the War
- RUSSIAN EMPIRE collapsed
- OTTOMAN EMPIRE collapsed
- AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE collapsed
- GERMAN EMPIRE - collapsed
ANTI-GOVT MOB IN DOWNTOWN BERIN, 1918
24Making Peace in the Midst of Revolution
- THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE OF 1919
25Is Peace Possible?
26AND DID IT ALL MEAN ANYTHING? WAS IT WORTH IT
ALL, IN THE END?