1914-1918: The World at War

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1914-1918The Worldat War
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Differing Viewpoints

• Family Feud
• Fall of the Eagles
• The War to End All Wars
• The War to Make the World Safe for
  Democracy

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Causesof theWar
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1. The Alliance System
Triple Entente
Triple Alliance
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Two Armed Camps!
Allied Powers
Central Powers
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The Major Players 1914-17
Allied Powers
Central Powers
Nicholas II Rus
Wilhelm II Ger
George V Br
Victor Emmanuel II It
Enver PashaTurkey
Pres. Poincare Fr
Franz Josef A-H
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Europe in 1914
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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 10
Britain 13
Russia 39
Germany 73
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3. Economic Imperial Rivalries
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4. Aggressive Nationalism
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Pan-Slavism The Balkans, 1914
ThePowder Kegof Europe
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TheSpark
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand His Family
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The Assassination Sarajevo
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The Assassin
GavriloPrincip
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Whos To Blame?
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The Schlieffen Plan
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German Atrocities in Belgium
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Mobilization

• Home by Christmas!
• No major war in 50 years!
• Nationalism!

It's a long way to Tipperary, It's a long
way to go It's a long way to Tipperary,
To the sweetest girl I know! Goodbye,
Piccadilly, Farewell, Leicester Square,
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there!
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Recruitment Posters
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A Young Australian Recruit
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Recruits of the Central Powers
A German Soldier Says Farewell to His Mother
Austro-Hungarians
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New French Recruits
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A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier
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Womenand theWarEffort
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Financing the War
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For Recruitment
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Munitions Workers
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French Women Factory Workers
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German Women Factory Workers
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Working in the Fields
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A Woman Ambulance Driver
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Red Cross Nurses
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Women in the Army Auxiliary
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Russian Women Soldiers
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Spies

• Mata Hari
• Real Name Margareetha Geertruide
  Zelle
• German Spy!

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PostersWartimePropaganda
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Australian Poster
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American Poster
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Financing the War
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German Poster
Think of Your Children!
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The Western Front A War of Attrition
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A Multi-Front War
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The Western Front
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Trench Warfare
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Trench Warfare
No Mans Land
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Verdun February, 1916

• German offensive.
• Each side had 500,000 casualties.

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The Somme July, 1916

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

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War Is HELL !!
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Sacrifices in War
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Krupps Big Bertha Gun
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TheEasternFront
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The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915
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Turkish Cavalry in Palestine
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T. E. Lawrence the Arab Revolt, 1916-18
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T. E. Lawrence Prince Faisal at Versailles,
1918-19
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The Tsar with General Brusilov
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TheColonialFronts
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Sikh British Soldiers in India
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Fighting in Africa
Black Soldiers in the German SchutztruppenGerman
E. Africa
British Sikh Mountain Gunners
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Fighting in Africa
3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade
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Fighting in Salonika, Greece
French colonial marine infantry fromCochin,
China - 1916
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AmericaJoinstheAllies
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The Sinking of the Lusitania
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The Zimmerman Telegram
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The YanksAre Coming!
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Americans in the Trenches
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The War of theIndustrial RevolutionNewTech
nology
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French Renault Tank
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British Tank at Ypres
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U-Boats
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Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats
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The Airplane
Squadron Over the BrentaMax Edler von Poosch,
1917
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The Flying Aces of World War I
FrancescoBarraco, It.
Eddie MickMannoch, Br.
Eddie Rickenbacher, US
Manfred vonRichtoffen, Ger.The Red Baron
Rene PaukFonck, Fr.
Willy Coppens deHolthust, Belg.
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Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant
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Looking for the Red Baron?
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The Zeppelin
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FlameThrowers
GrenadeLaunchers
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Poison Gas
Machine Gun
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ArtofWorldWar I
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A Street in ArrasJohn Singer Sargent, 1918
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Oppy Wood John Nash, 1917
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Those Who Have Lost Their NamesAlbin
Eggar-Linz, 1914
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Gassed and WoundedEric Kennington, 1918
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Paths of GloryC. R. W. Nevinson, 1917
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German CartoonFit for active service!, 1918
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1918 Flu Pandemic Depletes All Armies
50,000,000 100,000,000 died
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11 a.m., November 11, 1918
The Armistice is Signed!
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9,000,000 Dead
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The Somme American Cemetary, France
116,516 Americans Died
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World War I Casualties
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Turkish Genocide Against Armenians
A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!
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Turkish Genocide Against Armenians
Districts Vilayets of Western Armenia in Turkey 1914 1914 1922
Erzerum 215,000 215,000 1,500
Van 197,000 197,000 500
Kharbert 204,000 204,000 35,000
Diarbekir 124,000 124,000 3,000
Bitlis 220,000 220,000 56,000
Sivas 225,000 225,000 16,800
       
Other Armenian-populated Sites in Turkey      
Western Anatolia 371,800 371,800 27,000
Cilicia and Northern Syria 309,000 309,000 70,000
European Turkey 194,000 194,000 163,000
Trapizond District 73,390 73,390 15,000
Total Total 2,133,190 387,800