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Title: The Great War


1
The Great War
  • 1914-1918

2
The Beginning
  • By early 1900s, Europe has become a series of
    alliances among countries
  • A powderkeg, just waiting for a spark to set off
    explosion
  • One of these alliances includes Germany,
    Austria-Hungary, and their colonies (remember
    imperialism!)
  • Another alliance includes Russia, France, Serbia,
    England, and the colonies they control

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Austro-Hungarian Royalty
  • Austria-Hungary does not want its Balkan states,
    including Serbia, to break away and form Balkan
    League
  • Sends Archduke
    Franz-Ferdinand
    wife Sophie on
    meet greet
    tour of Serbia

5
Assassination!
  • Spark comes when Royal couple visit
    town of Sarajevo
  • Serbian college student, Gavril Princip,
    assassinates Austro-Hungarian Archduke
    Franz-Ferdianand his wife Sophie--summer
    of 1914

6
And the alliances gather in support
  • A-H declares war on Serbia
  • Serbias ally, Russia, declares war on A-H
  • A-Hs ally, Germany, declares war on Russia
    Serbia
  • Russias ally, France,
    declares war on
  • And so on. Soon, its

7
The Two Sides
  • THE ALLIES
  • England
  • France
  • Russia
  • more
  • ADVANTAGES
  • Englands navy
  • Russias population
  • THE CENTRAL POWERS
  • A-H
  • Germany
  • Ottoman Empire
  • more
  • ADVANTAGES
  • Military might of Germany
  • Military might of A-H

8
The Central Powers Problem a 2-front war
9
New Technology
  • Tanks
  • British tanks weigh up to 28 tons
  • Slow hard to turn around
  • Heavy armor well protected

10
Tanks
  • French tanks
  • Have light armor
  • Fast quick to turn
  • Gun turret swivels

11
Trench Warfare
  • Used heavily on the western front

12
Trenches
13
Trenches
14
The Machine Gun
15
Poison Gas
16
Women the Great War
17
Russian Women Soldiers
18
The Airplane
19
The Zepplin
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The Airplane
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  • The airplane in The Great War
  • Observation
  • Bombs
  • Half-bricks lengths of chain
  • Pistols
  • Rifles
  • Machine guns

21
Aces
  • To inspire courage, the very best pilots were
    named aces
  • Allies 5 confirmed kills
  • Central Powers 10 confirmed
    kills

22
Dogfights
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The Best of the Best
  • The best fighter pilot of The Great War
  • Manfred von Richtoffen
  • The Red Baron

24
The War
  • Both sides thought it would be a short war
  • Started in summer, 1914
    over by Christmas
  • Wrong!
  • Meat grinder on Russian front
  • Well-armed German troops fight millions of
    poorly-armed Russian peasants
  • Stalemate on Western Front (trenches)

25
1917
  • By 1917, millions of Russian peasants have died
    senselessly
  • Russian people have lost confidence in leadership
    of Tsar Nicholas II (recall disastrous
    Russo - Japanese War of 1905)
  • Feb. 1917 February Revolution
  • Russian nobles seize control of govt.
  • Russia pulls out of Great War
  • Makes separate treaty w/Germany

26
October Revolution
  • The Russian nobles now in charge make few changes
  • Bad harvests
  • Much crime
  • Peasants still starving
  • Bolshevik Party of common people overthrow
    nobles seize power
  • Leader Vladimir Lenin
  • Co-Leader Leon Trotsky

27
1917
  • The Germans want to keep US out of War
  • Send Zimmerman Telegram
  • Intercepted by British
  • Given to US published in US newspapers

28
Zimmerman Telegram
29
US Response
  • Pres. Wilson asks congress to declare war
  • To make the world safe for democracy

Democracy
30
Congress Agrees
  • Lone dissenting vote Congresswoman
    Jeanette Rankin
  • (1st woman in congress)
  • The Yanks Are Coming!

31
Over There
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