The Alliance System

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The Alliance System

• Triple Entente
• France
• Russia
• Great Britain

• Triple Alliance
• Germany
• Austria
• Italy

June 1914
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Germanys view of the Europe
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Another German view of Europe
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The Belligerents

• The Allies
• France
• Russia
• Great Britain
• Italy

• The Central Powers
• Germany
• Austrian Empire
• Ottoman Empire

1915
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Guns of August
War is the unfolding of miscalculations
Barbara Tuchman
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George V and his Generals
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General von Schlieffen
General von Moltke
General von Falkenhayn
Germany General Staff
General Ludendorf
General von Hindenberg
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General Foch
General Gallieni
General Joffre
French army
General Nivelle
General Petain
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British recruiting
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If I should die, think only this of me. That
theres some corner of a foreign field That is
forever England. There shall be In that rich
earth a richer dust concealed A dust whom
England bore, shaped, made aware Gave, once,
her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of
Englands breathing English air, Washed by the
rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this
heart,all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal
mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts
by England given Her sights and sounds dreams
happy as her day And laughter, learnt of
friends and gentleness, In hearts at peace,
under an English heaven. Rupert
Brooke, 1887-1915
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• Brooke actually saw little combat during the war
  he contracted blood-poisoning from a small
  neglected injury and died in April 1915, in the
  Aegean

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French recruiting
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British and French colors
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British enlisting
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German Students
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Appointed Chief of Staff in 1911 He commanded the
BEF in 1914 After Mons, he became pessimistic
about the war He resigned in December 1915 and
and was replaced by General Haig
General French
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He took command of the BEF in December
1915 Under extreme pressure by the French to
relieve pressure on Verdun, he led the BEF in
the Battle of the Somme, July-Nov. 1916
General Haig
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Good-morning good-morning! the General
said When we met him last week on our way to the
line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of
em dead, And were cursing his staff for
incompetent swine. Hes a cheery old card,
grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up to Arras
with rifle and pack. But he did for them both
by his plan of attack. Siegfried Sassoon
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• He quickly developed the nickname 'Mad Jack' for
  his fearless courage on the Western Front, often
  volunteering to lead night raids.
• Sassoon was awarded the Military Cross in June
  1916 for assisting a wounded man back to British
  lines while under fire.
• After being wounded in April 1917 Sassoon was
  sent back to England for recuperation.  Sassoon
  had meanwhile developed increasingly angry
  feelings concerning the conduct of the war.  This
  led him to publish, in The Times, a letter
  announcing his view that the war was being
  deliberately and unnecessarily prolonged by the
  authorities.
• Sassoon narrowly avoided punishment by courts
  martial via the swift assistance of Robert
  Graves, who convinced the military review board
  (with Sassoon's reluctant consent) that Sassoon
  was suffering from shell shock. 

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General Allenby
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Ottoman Empire 1914