1914-1918: The World at War
20 th  Century Begins New Technology Seems possible that peace would last.
2 Changes Undermine Stability Germany’s position Ottoman Empire Weakening
The “Spark”
Pan-Slavism:  The Balkans, 1914 The “Powder Keg” of Europe
Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family
The Assassination:  Sarajevo
Causes of the War
1. The Alliance System Triple Entente : Triple Alliance :
Two Armed Camps! Allied Powers : Central Powers :
Europe in 1914
2. Militarism & Arms Race Germany’s Yearning to Dominate Europe Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br., Rus.]  in millions of £s. 398 289 268 154 130 94 1914 1910 1900 1890 1880 1870 1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures 73% Germany 39% Russia 13% Britain 10% France
3.Economic & Imperial Rivalries
Aggressive Nationalism
The War  Begins
The Schlieffen Plan
Recruitment Posters
Recruits of the  Central Powers Austro-Hungarians A German Soldier Says Farewell to His Mother
New French Recruits
A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier
 
The Western Front:   A “War of    Attrition ”
A Multi-Front War
The Western Front
Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare “ No Man’s Land”
War Is   HELL  !!
Sacrifices in War
Posters: Wartime Propaganda
Australian Poster
American Poster
Financing the War
German Poster
America Joins the Allies
The Sinking  of the Lusitania
The Yanks Are Coming!
9,000,000   Dead
The Somme American Cemetary, France 116,516 Americans Died
World War I Casualties
Turkish Genocide Against Armenians A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!
Turkish Genocide Against Armenians Turkish Genocide of Armenians (1914 - 1922) 387,800 2,133,190 Total 15,000 73,390 Trapizond District 163,000 194,000 European Turkey 70,000 309,000 Cilicia and Northern Syria 27,000 371,800 Western Anatolia     Other Armenian-populated Sites in Turkey       16,800 225,000 Sivas 56,000 220,000 Bitlis 3,000 124,000 Diarbekir 35,000 204,000 Kharbert 500 197,000 Van 1,500 215,000 Erzerum 1922 1914 Districts & Vilayets of Western Armenia in Turkey
Women and the War Effort
Financing the War
For Recruitment
Munitions Workers
French Women Factory Workers
German Women Factory Workers
Working in the Fields
A Woman Ambulance Driver
Red Cross Nurses
Women in the Army Auxiliary
Russian Women Soldiers
The War of the Industrial  Revolution: New Technology
French Renault Tank
British Tank at Ypres
U-Boats
Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats
The Airplane “ Squadron Over the Brenta” Max Edler von Poosch, 1917
Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers
Poison Gas Machine Gun
1918 Flu Pandemic:  Depletes All Armies 50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died
11 a.m., November 11, 1918

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