The War to End All Wars

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WORLD WAR I (1914-1918)
The War to End All Wars or The
Great War
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The Basics
? 30 nations involved
? 15 million soldiers died cost 350 billion
? Allies France, Great Britain, Russia, U.S.

• Central Powers Germany, Austria-Hungary,
• Ottoman Empire

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Causes of WWI

• Nationalism belief that a specific nation,
• language, or culture is superior to all others

Hapsburg Empire (Austria-Hungary)
British Flag
Russian Flag 1914
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Empire of Austria-Hungary

• Includes following
• groups of people
• Austrians
• Hungarians
• Czechs
• Poles
• Slavs
• Croats
• Slovenians
• Bosnians

What problems do you think the Austrian-Hungarian
Empire will have because of this diversity?
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• Imperialism competition for colonies
• influence

Colonization in Asia
Race to Colonize Africa
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• Militarism (Arms Race) nations build up
• armed forces

Eight before its too late!
We want eight and we wont wait!
HMS Dreadnought,1906 
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• Alliances nations signed treaties to help
• each other

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June 28,1914 Assassination

• Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
• killed by Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo
• Princip

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1914 World War I begins!

• July 28 Austria-Hungary declared war on
• Serbia
• began a chain reaction of the alliance
• system

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The Early Western Front

• German Schlieffen Plan attack France
• 1st, then Russia
• Battle of the Marne stops
• German advance
• Western Front
• Stalemate situation
• In which neither side
• can win a clear victory
• for 3 yrs.

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WWI Warfare Techniques
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? Trench warfare
Somme
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• Poison Gas (outlawed after WWI)

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? Rapid Firing Machine Guns
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? Submarine Warfare (led to convoys)
German U-9 - destroyed three ships in 75
minutes, including the Cressy
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? Mines and underwater explosives
Mines from Ottoman Empire
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? Air fighting and Spying (planes and zeppelins)
Zeppelin bombing raid
Dog Fight above the trenches in WWI
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? Tank (broke the Western front)
Introduced at battle of Somme, 1916, but could
only go 3 mph.
By 1918 able to cross trenches