The Total War

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Winning The War

• The Total War
• Another positive learning experience at Camp
  Haskell!

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World History-Social Science Content Standards
for California Public Schools

• 10.5 Students analyze the causes and course of
  the First World War.
• 1. Analyze the arguments for entering into war
  presented by leaders from all sides of the Great
  War and the role of political and economic
  rivalries, ethnic and ideological conflicts,
  domestic discontent and disorder, and propaganda
  and nationalism in mobilizing the civilian
  population in support of "total war."
• 2. Examine the principal theaters of battle,
  major turning points, and the importance of
  geographic factors in military decisions and
  outcomes (e.g., topography, waterways, distance,
  climate).
• 3. Explain how the Russian Revolution and the
  entry of the United States affected the course
  and outcome of the war.
• 4. Understand the nature of the war and its human
  costs (military and civilian) on all sides of the
  conflict, including how colonial peoples
  contributed to the war effort.
• 5. Discuss human rights violations and genocide,
  including the Ottoman government's actions
  against Armenian citizens.

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How did WWI become a total war!

• In a total war, all of a nations resources go
  into the war effort. Governments drafted men to
  fight the war. They raised the taxes to pay the
  costs of fighting.
• They rationed, or limited the supply of goods, so
  that they could supply the military. They used
  the press to publish propaganda that made the
  enemy look bad. Propaganda is the spreading of
  ideas to promote a cause or damage an opposing
  cause.

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Women in WWI.

• Women played a major part in total war. Many took
  jobs that soldier left behind. Some joined the
  armed services. Others went to the fronts as
  nurses.

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Events Change the Balance of Power

• By 1917, Europe had seen too much death and ruin.
  In Russia, low morale, or spirits, led to
  revolution. Early in 1918, the new leader signed
  a treaty with Germany that took Russia out of the
  war.
• Events in Russia and the United States changed
  the balance of power.
• The Zimmerman note was an intercepted message by
  the British showing the German foreign minister
  promising Mexico New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona
  in return for their support. This hastened
  American anger and the anti-German feelings
  intensified in the United States,

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United States

• The United States was no longer neutral. In April
  1917, the United States declared war on Germany.
• With new soldiers supplies from the United
  States, the Allies gained control. The other
  Central Powers had given up, and the Germans
  stood alone. They asked for an end to the
  fighting. On November 11, 1918, an armistice, or
  agreement to end fighting, was declared. The
  Great War was OVER!!

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Review

• What did the warring nations do to support their
  war effort?!
• How did the actions of Russia and the United
  States affect World War I?