WWI: The Great War

1
WWI The Great War

• 1914-1918

2
WWI The largest technological and psychological
experiment in world history.
3
Isms as Causes

• Nationalism ? Jingoism
• Industrialism ? Militarism
• Imperialism ? New Imperialism
• All give way to a new alliance system.

4
Alliance System
5
The Spark
Gavrilo Princep shoots Franz Ferdinand!
6
(No Transcript)
7
Falling Dominos?

• 1 Germany issues blank check to
  Austro-Hungary.

Kaiser Wilhelm
8
2 Russia comes to Serbias aid. (Pan-Slavism)
9
3 France mobilizes its army in support of
Russia.
10
4 Germany invades France via. Belgium.
(Schlieffen Plan)
11
5 Great Britain declares war on Germany.
John Bull
12
The Great War has Begun!
13
Overview

• Germany, Italy, Austro-Hungary vs. France, G.B.,
  Russia. (others involved)
• Germany and France attack each other in opposite
  directions (revolving door)
• Trench warfarestalemate
• War on two fronts
• New weapon technology
• Poor economies at home
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Russia drops out)
• USA joins, helps win war
• Treaty of Versailles( punish Germany/ League of
  Nations)
• Triple alliance territory divided up.

14
Stalemate on the Western Front

• French and German troops dug in.
• -trenches.
• -new weapons technology.
• -no mans land.
• -over the top.
• -early war of attrition.

15
Trench Warfare
16
(No Transcript)
17
(No Transcript)
18
(No Transcript)
19
Consequence of living in trenches
20
New Weapons technology

• Aircraft

21
(No Transcript)
22
Family pride Reed Chambers
23
Poison gas (mustard gas)
24
(No Transcript)
25
(No Transcript)
26
Heavy artillery
27
Barbed wire
28
Tanks
29
(No Transcript)
30
(No Transcript)
31
(No Transcript)
32
Machine guns
33
Flamethrowers
34
What are some results of all this?

• Little ground won or lost.
• Long battles.
• High casualties.
• shell-shock
• Ethics and morality of war?
• MAXIMUM CARNAGE!!!

35
Battle of the Somme summer to fall 1916 (4-6
month span)
Total death count 1,088,907
36
Pivotal developments

• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• Unrestricted submarine warfare
• -Sussex Pledge
• -Lusitania
• Zimmerman Note.
• Doughboys.
• British Tanks.

37
End of War Treaty of Versailles

• Germany surrenders.
• Wilsons 14 Points
• vital points
• 1. freedom of the seas.
• 2. forced reparations.
• 3. colonial changes.
• 4. League of Nations.
• who benefits most?

38
The Big Four
The Realists?
David Lloyd George, Great Britain
Vittorio Orlando, Italy
Woodrow Wilson U.S.A., the Idealist
Georges Clemenceau, France
39
The cooperative front
Hey Dave, did you see Georges mustache?
I wish I had a cool mustache
Yeah its awesome, hey can I touch that stache?
Never touch! EVER!
40
The results

• Germany accepts blame, pays millions in
  reparations.
• League of Nations is created U.S. does not join.
• Europe eventually U.S. slips into major
  economic depression.

41
?