A Global Conflict

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A Global Conflict

• CH 13
• Sect 3

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War Affects the World

• Armies looked beyond Europe in order to end the
  stalemate
• Gallipoli Allies hoped to defeat the Ottomans
• Establish a supply route to Russia
• Australian, New Zealand, British, French
• Turned into a stalemate also
• Africa and Asia
• Coloniesboth sides recruited colonists to fight

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• 1917- America joins war on Allied side
• Because of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
• Germans said they would sink any ship in waters
  around Britain
• U.S. almost entered in 1915sinking of the
  Lusitania (passenger ship)
• Germans stopped until 1917
• Germans needed an advantagedecided to blockade
  Britain and sink supply ships
• Sank 3 U.S. shipsU.S. ready to enter war
• Zimmerman Note (to Mexico)join Central Powers
  and reclaim part of U.S.

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War Affects the Home Front

• Became a Total Warcountries dedicated all of
  their resources
• Governments Rationed supplies
• Released propaganda against enemies
• Women replaced men in factories

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Allies Win the War

• Russia Withdraws Czar Nicolas II steps down
• New government promises to stay in war
• Overthrown by Bolsheviks (Communist)
• Led by Vladimir Lenin
• Signed truce with Germany (Treaty of
  Brest-Litovskended war between two countries
• U.S. tried to overthrow Communists and keep
  Russia in the war (failed)

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Central Powers Collapse

• Germans sent all troops to western front
• Pushed the French towards ParisGerman troops
  exhausted
• 350 Allied tanks and 140,000 fresh American
  troops roll through Germans
• 2 million more American troops arrivedswept
  through Germans
• Bulgaria and Ottomans surrender

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• Revolutions in A-H and Germany
• Kaiser Wilhelm forced to step down
• Germans and French sign Armistice on November 11,
  1918 (agreement to stop fighting)
• War was over

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Legacy of the War

• New technologies make old way of fighting
  obsolete
• 8.5 million soldiers died, 21 million injured
• Cost of war was 338 billion
• Farms, homes, towns destroyed
• Treaties blamed Germany for the war
• Economies of Europe were in ruins