WORLD WAR I

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WORLD WAR I

• AN OVERVIEW

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HOW IT STARTEDJUNE 1914-AUG 1914

• ARCHDUKE FRANCIS FERDINAND KILLED BY GAVRILO
  PRINCIP IN BOSNIA
• AUSTRIA-HUNGARY BLAMED SERBIA
• SERBIA ASKED RUSSIA FOR PROTECTION
• AUSTRIA ASKED GERMANY FOR HELP
• RUSSIA ASKED FRANCE FOR HELP
• GERMANY ATTACKED FRANCE THROUGH NEUTRAL BELGIUM
  -VON SCHLIEFFEN PLAN
• ENGLAND DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY

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STALEMATE1914-1915

• TRENCH WARFARE
• BATTLE OF MARNE
• TANNENBURG-RUSSIA NO LONGER THREAT TO GERMANY
• GERMANY TURNED BACK ITS ATTENTION TO WESTERN FRONT

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THE GREAT SLAUGHTER1916-1917

• TOTAL WAR -EVERYONE INVOLVED
• VERDUN 700, 000 MEN KILLED
• WAR BECAME WAR OF ATTRITION
• AIRPLANES, MACHINE GUNS, POISON GAS BOMBING OF
  CITIES
• TURKEY CAME INTO WAR ON SIDE OF GERMANY AND
  AUSTRIA-HUNGARY (TRIPLE ALLIANCE)
• GALLIPOLI

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THE GREAT SLAUGHTER cont.

• ENGLAND AND GERMANY DECLARED NAVAL BLOCKADE OF
  EACH OTHER
• 1915 BRITISH SHIP LUSITANIA SANK BY GERMANY
  KILLING 1,100 CIVILIANS AND MANY AMERICANS
• 1917 U.S. FED UP WITH U-BOAT ATTACKS ENTERED WAR

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

• RUSSIA ENTERS WAR
• CZAR NICHOLAS AND CZARINA ALEXANDRA INFLUENCED BY
  RASPUTIN
• PEOPLE BECAME UPSET WITH CZAR BECAUSE OF WAR AND
  FOOD SHORTAGES
• MARCH 1917 REVOLUTION STARTS IN PETROGRAD
• MANY KILLED IN RIOTS
• MARCH 12 CZAR ABDICATES

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION cont.

• KERENSKY FORMS NEW DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT
• NEW GOVERNMENT CONTINUES WAR- BIG BIG MISTAKE
• KERENSKY CHALLENGED BY SOVIETS

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CIVIL WAR

• BOLSHEVIKS HEADED BY LENIN
• WANTED TO END WAR AND DISTRIBUTE LAND TO PEASANTS
• WANTED TO TRANSFER POWER TO WORKERS
• PEACE, LAND, BREAD
• RENAMED THEMSELVES COMMUNISTS

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CIVIL WAR cont

• CIVIL WAR BREAKS OUT IN RUSSIA
• WHITE RUSSIANS LOYAL TO CZAR VERSUS COMMUNISTS
  LED BY LEON TROTSKY
• COMMUNIST END WAR AND GERMANY SENDS ITS
  TROOPS BACK TO WESTERN FRONT TO FIGHT IN FRANCE
• COMMUNIST CAPTURE CZAR AND FAMILY EXECUTE THEM
  AND WIN CIVIL WAR