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PowerPoint® Presentations in World History

World War I

By Steve Schroeder

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The Great WarWorld War I

Causes, Events, Aftermath

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Map of Allied and Central Powers

ALLIED POWERSMajor Powers• British Empire

(1914–1918)• France (1914–1918)• Italy (1914–1918)• Russia (1914–1917)• United States

(1917–1918)CENTRAL POWERS

Major Powers• Austria-Hungary

(1914–1918)• Germany (1914–1918)• Ottoman Empire/Turkey

(1914–1918)

United StatesUnited States

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United Kingdom

• Constitutionalmonarchy

• 1914: Enteredthe war todefendBelgium’sneutrality

• Had the least togain from a warin Europe

“The Rhodes Colossus”

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France

• A republic

• Many longedfor glory daysof NapoleonBonaparte’sempire

• Colonial power

• Soughtrevenge againstGermany

Napoleon III flanked by two of his ministers

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Russia

• TsarNicholas II

• Economybased onserfdom

• Struggle toindustrialize

Russian nobles use serfs in a card game, 1854

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Germany

• Otto vonBismarckunified theGerman states(1871)

• Kaiser WilhelmII

• No colonies• Leading

industrial powerby 1900

“Bismarck content as colonial powers scramble”

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Ottoman Empire

• 1908: Western-style constitution

• Surrenderedsovereignty forGerman help

• 1914: Germaninfluence inOttoman foreignpolicy

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Austria-Hungary

• HapsburgDynasty—anold and dyingkingdom

• Numerousethnicities

• Provided the“explosion”that led to theGreat War

Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph

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Pre-War Europe

• Outdated socialpractices andmilitary tactics

• Alliances

• Industrialization

• Aristocracies

• Calls for socialreform

• Governmentresponses

Hadol’s cartoon map of Europe

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Balkan Powder Keg

• Nationalistfeelings dividecountry

• Multiplelanguages,religions, andcultures

• Each wanted itsown homeland

A battle in the first Balkan War