Title: The Great War: The World in Upheaval 30
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- How was the world transformed by the encounter in
Sarajevo, June 28, 1914?
3The Great War
- Learning Outcomes
- Be able to think about the historical
circumstances that precipitated the Great War - Be able to explain how the Great War altered the
political landscape and discredited established
cultural traditions - Comprehend the shift in power away from Western
Europe in the aftermath of the Great War - Appreciate the emergence of nationalist
aspirations among colonized peoples in the
aftermath of the Great War
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- The Drift Toward War
- Nationalist Aspirations
- Self-Determination
- Balkan Nationalism
- Ottoman power
- nationalist revolts
- Austria-Hungary
- Slavic peoples
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- The Drift Toward War
- National Rivalries
- The Naval Race
- Colonial Disputes
- Germanys place in the sun
- The Balkan Wars
- Public Opinion
German Dreadnought
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- The Drift Toward War
- Understandings Alliances
- The Central Powers
- The Allies
- War Plans
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- The Drift Toward War War Plans
German Schlieffen Plan, 1905
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- Global War
- The Guns of August 23 July to 4 August
- Declarations of War
Ypres, 1919
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The Great War in Europe and southwest Asia,
1914-1918
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- Global War
- Mutual Butchery
- The Western Front
The Great War in Europe the Trenches
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- Mutual Butchery
- The Western Front The Somme, July Nov. 18
20,000 men killed on the first day of the battle
The Somme
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- Global War
- Mutual Butchery
- The Western Front
- Stalemate New Weapons
- No-Mans-Land
Zeppelin
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- Mutual Butchery
- The Eastern Front
- Bloodletting
- New Rules of Engagement
Russian Troops, 1916
1918, Russia withdraws
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Zulu Warriors entertaining British troops at the
front resuming uniforms later
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- Sources From The Past
- Dulce Et Decorum Est
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame all
blind Drunk with fatigue deaf even to the
hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly
behind... - The Poems of Wilfred Owen
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- What do you think were the consequences of
Wilfred Owens poem Dulce et decorum est?
Wilfred Owen, 1893-1918
Siegfried Sasson, 1886-1967
Robert Graves, 1885-1995
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- Global War
- Total War The Home Front
- The Home Front
- Women at War
- Propaganda
The Heroes of Belgium 1914, French propaganda
poster
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English poster
French Poster
English poster
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Russian Poster
German poster
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French poster
German Poster
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English Poster
German Poster
23Total War Propaganda
English Poster
Russian poster
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- Global War Lusitania, 1915
An Indian gun crew in the Somme area, 1916
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- Conflict in East Asia the Pacific
- Japans Entry into the War
- The Twenty-One Demands (to China)
An Indian gun crew in the Somme area, 1916
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- Global War
- Battles in Africa and Southwest Asia
- Gallipoli
- The Ottoman Empire
ANZACS pinned down on beach
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- The End of the War
- Revolution in Russia
- The February Revolution
- The Struggle for Power
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- The End of the War
- Revolution in Russia
- Vladimir Lenin
- The October Revolution
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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- Sources From The Past What was V. I. Lenins
vision? - State and Revolution
Only in the Communist society, when the
resistance of the capitalists has been completely
crushed when there are no classes... only then
the state ceases to exist, and it becomes
possible to speak of freedom. - V.I.
Lenin, The State and Revolution
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- The End of War
- U.S. Intervention Collapse of the Central
Powers - Economic Considerations
- Submarine Warfare
- America Declares War, April 1917
General John Pershing
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- The End of War
- U.S. Intervention Collapse of the Central
Powers - Collapsing Fronts
- Irish Easter Rebellion
- German Naval Revolt at Kiel
- French soldiers mutiny
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- The End of War
- U.S. Intervention Collapse of the Central
Powers - Collapsing Fronts
- Armistice
Armistice, November 11, 1918 Railcar
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Armistice, November 11, 1918 Railcar
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- The End of War
- The Paris Peace Conference
- The Paris Settlement Treaty of Versailles
- Wilsons Fourteen Points
- The Peace Treaties
Clemenceau Wilson
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- The End of War The Paris Peace Conference
- Mustafa Kemal / Atatürk
- The League of Nations
- Self-Determination
Territorial Changes in Europe after the Great War
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- The End of War Challenges to European
Preeminence - The Mandate System
- Weakened Europe
- Revolutionary Ideas
Territorial Changes in southwest Asia after the
Great War
37The Great War The World in Upheaval Key Words
and Terms
- Self-determination
- dreadnoughts
- place in the sun
- Triple Alliance Triple Entente
- Schlieffen plan
- no-mans-land
- Verdun and the Somme
- Wilfred Owen
- home front
- Twenty-one Demands
- Gallipoli
- February Revolution
- October Revolution
- Bolsheviks
- Treaty of Brest Litovsk
- Treaty of Versailles
- Wilsons Fourteen Points
- League of Nations
- The Mandate system
- Winston Churchill
- Mustapha Kemal
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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- Learning Outcomes
- Be able to think about the historical
circumstances that precipitated the Great War - Be able to explain how the Great War altered the
political landscape and discredited established
cultural traditions - Comprehend the shift in power away from Western
Europe in the aftermath of the Great War - Appreciate the emergence of nationalist
aspirations among colonized peoples in the
aftermath of the Great War
39The Great War The World in Upheaval Summary
- The assassination of archduke Francis Ferdinand
plunged the World in to four years of global war. - Belligerent societies organized for total war
drawing on the resources of their overseas
empires. - The war stalemated until the United States entry
in April 1917. - The war mobilized 70 million men, nearly 9
million Europeans killed, Globally 15 million
died - The toll heaviest on young men of the war
generation German, France and Britain lost 1/3
of men aged 19-22 in 1914. - The wars most potent social political legacy
was death its powerful cultural legacy was
disillusionment. - WW I exhausted the economic wealth global
political primacy of the major European powers. - WW I promoted nationalist aspirations among
colonized people.