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THE GREAT WAR: THE WORLD IN UPHEAVAL
La Belle Époque - 1871 - 1914
Absence of armed conflict
Increasing power of popularly elected legislatures.
Increasing involvement of government in social legislation.
Improved health and leisure.
CAUSES AND ORIGINS OF THE WAR Short term cause – Assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie enter their car one final time unaware they are minutes from dying
LONG TERM CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I
Long term causes are much more complex
National rivalries
Imperialism
Military Arms Race
Economic Rivalries
Domestic Problems
LONG TERM CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I
Alliance System
Triple Alliance (Central Powers ) – Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy (later left and became neutral, then joined the Allies)
Triple Entente (Allied Powers) – Britain, France, Russia
Nationalism
MARCH TO WAR Crisis in the Balkans
SerbiaBosnia – Herzegovina
MARCH TO WAR Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princip Black Hand Produces a Chain Reaction
Gavrilo Princip Gavrilo Princip being apprehended
Franz Ferdinand and family
AUSTRIA – HUNGARY ISSUES ULTIMATUM TO SERBIA
- Demands were impossible for Serbia to meet
- Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia
- This sets off a chain reaction
CHAIN REACTION
Austria-Hungary and Germany
Vs.
Serbia and Russia
MARCH TO WAR
Schlieffin Plan Had been created in 1905 Take France, then Russia
Rape of Belgium Belgium was neutral Germany invades Great Britain enters WWI
Battle of the Marne
REACTION TO WAR - EXCITEMENT
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Trench warfare
TRENCH FOOT
NO MAN’S LAND
NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Poisonous gas
Tanks
Airplanes
Submarine
BATTLE OF VERDUN – FEBRUARY 1916
BATTLE OF THE SOMME – JULY 1916
THE EASTERN FRONT
ON THE HOMEFRONT…
Total War
Mass conscription
Government controlled economies
Wage & price controls, work hours, full employment
Limited & restricted freedoms.
PROPAGANDA
WOMEN AND WAR
Women performed the jobs of men at home
Women served as nurses on the battlefield
At the war’s end, women expected more equality with men
In some places, gained the right to vote
WIDENING THE WAR
The Ottoman Empire
Italy
Middle East
Japan
United States
AMERICA JOINS THE WAR
Lusitania
AMERICA JOINS THE WAR Lusitania
AMERICA JOINS THE WAR
The Zimmerman Telegram
1918 OFFENSIVES
German Offensive Treaty of Brest – Litovsk with Russia Moved troops to Western Front
Second Battle of the Marne
The Hundred Days
German defeat – November 1918 Government collapse Weimar Republic
HUMAN COST Military & Civilian Deaths: 15 million
Wounded: 20 million
Germany – 2 million
Russia – 1.7 million
France – 1.4 million
Great Britain – 1 million
U.S. – 126k
PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE
Georges Clemenceau
David Lloyd George
Victorio Orlando
Woodrow WilsonFourteen Points George, Orlando, Clemenceau, Wilson
THE REORDERING OF EUROPE
Treaty of Versailles Germany blamed for the war Territorial loss Military reduction Saddled with reparations payments
League of Nations America didn’t join
Redrawing the Map of Europe
IMPACT OF WAR AND PEACE
Weak peace settlement – led to WWII
Bolshevik Revolution
Destroyed Empires
New Map of Europe
Age of Anxiety