1914-1918: The World at War

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1914-1918The Worldat War
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Various Names

• Family Feud
• The War to End All Wars
• The War to Make the World Safe for
  Democracy

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Causesof theWar
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1. The Alliance System
Triple Entente
Triple Alliance
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Two Armed Camps!
Allied Powers
Central Powers
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The Major Players 1914-17
Allied Powers
Central Powers
Nicholas II Rus
Wilhelm II Ger
George V Br
Victor Emmanuel II It
Enver PashaTurkey
Pres. Poincare Fr
Franz Josef A-H
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2. Militarism Arms Race
Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers
Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br., Rus. in millions of
s.
1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1914
94 130 154 268 289 398
1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures
France 10
Britain 13
Russia 39
Germany 73
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3. Economic Imperial Rivalries
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4. Aggressive Nationalism
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Pan-Slavism The Balkans, 1914
ThePowder Kegof Europe
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TheSpark
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand His Family
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The Assassination Sarajevo
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The Assassin
GavriloPrincip
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Whos To Blame?
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The Schlieffen Plan
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German Atrocities in Belgium
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Mobilization

• Home by Christmas!
• No major war in 50 years!
• Nationalism!

It's a long way to Tipperary, It's a long
way to go It's a long way to Tipperary,
To the sweetest girl I know! Goodbye,
Piccadilly, Farewell, Leicester Square,
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there!
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Recruitment Posters
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A Young Australian Recruit
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Recruits of the Central Powers
A German Soldier Says Farewell to His Mother
Austro-Hungarians
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New French Recruits
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A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier
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Womenand theWarEffort
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Financing the War
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For Recruitment
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Munitions Workers
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German Women Factory Workers
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A Woman Ambulance Driver
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Red Cross Nurses
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Russian Women Soldiers
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Spies

• Mata Hari
• Real Name Margareetha Geertruide
  Zelle
• German Spy!

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PostersWartimePropaganda
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Australian Poster
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American Poster
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German Poster
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The Western Front A War of Attrition
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A Multi-Front War
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The Western Front
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Trench Warfare
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Trench Warfare
No Mans Land
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Verdun February, 1916

• German offensive.
• Each side had 500,000 casualties.

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The Somme July, 1916

• 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day.
• Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.

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War Is HELL !!
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Sacrifices in War
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TheEasternFront
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The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915
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Turkish Cavalry in Palestine
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T. E. Lawrence the Arab Revolt, 1916-18
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T. E. Lawrence Prince Faisal at Versailles,
1918-19
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The Tsar with General Brusilov
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TheColonialFronts
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Sikh British Soldiers in India
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Fighting in Africa
Black Soldiers in the German SchutztruppenGerman
E. Africa
British Sikh Mountain Gunners
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Fighting in Africa
3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade
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Fighting in Salonika, Greece
French colonial marine infantry fromCochin,
China - 1916
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AmericaJoinstheAllies
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The Sinking of the Lusitania
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The Zimmerman Telegram
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The YanksAre Coming!
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Americans in the Trenches
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The War of theIndustrial RevolutionNewTech
nology
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French Renault Tank
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British Tank at Ypres
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U-Boats
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Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats
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The Airplane
Squadron Over the BrentaMax Edler von Poosch,
1917
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The Flying Aces of World War I
FrancescoBarraco, It.
Eddie MickMannoch, Br.
Eddie Rickenbacher, US
Manfred vonRichtoffen, Ger.The Red Baron
Rene PaukFonck, Fr.
Willy Coppens deHolthust, Belg.
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Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant
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Looking for the Red Baron?
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The Zeppelin
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FlameThrowers
GrenadeLaunchers
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Poison Gas
Machine Gun
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ArtofWorldWar I
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A Street in ArrasJohn Singer Sargent, 1918
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Oppy Wood John Nash, 1917
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Those Who Have Lost Their NamesAlbin
Eggar-Linz, 1914
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Gassed and WoundedEric Kennington, 1918
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Paths of GloryC. R. W. Nevinson, 1917
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German CartoonFit for active service!, 1918
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1918 Flu Pandemic Depletes All Armies
50,000,000 100,000,000 died
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11 a.m., November 11, 1918
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9,000,000 Dead
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The Somme American Cemetary, France
116,516 Americans Died
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Turkish Genocide Against Armenians
A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!