World War One

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World War One

• Major Battles and Important Stuff ?

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Changes in Daily Life

• How were the roles of Civilians changed during
  WWI?
• How did the role of the government change during
  WWI?
• What role did propaganda play during WWI?

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Answers

• Civilians
• War not fought by professional soldiers
• Men 20 - 40 fighting
• Women replaced males work in factories
• Government
• Told companies what to produce and how much
• Rationing buy only small amounts of items
  government needed for war effort
• Propaganda
• Convince people of a certain point of view
• Books, posters, news reports

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Map Activity

• Locate and Label
• Ireland, France, Montenegro, Serbia, Great
  Britain, Italy, Albania, Romania, Belgium,
  Greece, Russia, Germany, Ottoman Empire, Sweden,
  Switzerland, Austria-Hungary, Spain, Norway,
  Portugal, Bulgaria, Norway.
• Use different Colors/Patterns to shade the
  Countries that belonged to the Allied Powers,
  Central Powers and Neutral.
• How was the concentration of Central Powers in
  the center of Europe both and advantage and a
  disadvantage during the war?

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Western Front Major Battles

• Verdun
• Feb 1916
• Lasted 5 months
• Each side lost 300,000 men
• Germans advance 4 miles
• Somme
• 20,000 British killed on first day
• British advance 5 miles

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Eastern Front

• Russians, Serbs vs. Austrians, Turks Germans
• Battle of Tannenberg
• August 1914
• Germans push back Russians
• Russians had numbers not supplies
• Russians never fully recover

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Russians/United States

• Russian Revolution 1917 leave war
• Germany Brings Lenin back to Russia.
• Czar driven from power
• United States April 2, 1917 enter war
• Lusitania sunk 1,198 killed - 139 US killed
• Zimmerman telegraph

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Battle of the Marne

• August 1918
• Germany
• Low supplies and men
• No more trained troops/ only 15-16 year old boys
• Allies
• US troops arriving 250,000 a month
• Allies put up good fight and by September German
  resources almost gone

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Armistice

• Nov. 9, 1918 Kaiser William II abdicated throne
• November 11, 1918 Cease-fire
• French over 1 million 4,000 towns
• Great Britain 900,000, 2 million wounded.
• 20 million civilians fighting starvation,
  disease, injury