1914-1918 The World at War

1914-1918The World

at WarCreated By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer

Horace Greeley H. S., Chappaqua, NY

The 4 M.A.I.N.

Causes of the War

What were they?

1. Militarism & Arms Race

1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 191494 130 154 268 289 398

Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br.,

Rus.] (in millions of £’s.)

1910-1914 Increase in Defense

ExpendituresFrance 10%Britain 13%Russia 39%

Germany

73%

All this is evidence of an:

Anglo-German Arms Race

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✤Triple Alliance (1881)✤Russian-German Reinsurgence Treaty

(1887)✤“Splendid Isolation” (until 1902)✤Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902)✤Entente Cordial (1904)✤Triple Entente (1907)

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2. Entangling Alliances

Triple Entente: Triple Alliance:

Two Armed Camps!Allied Powers: Central Powers:

Europe in 1914

3. Imperialism & Colonial Rivalries

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✤Berlin Conference (1884-85)✤Kruger Telegram (1902)

✤ I express to you my sincere congratulations that you and your people, without appealing to the help of friendly powers, have succeeded, by your own energetic action against the armed bands which invaded your country as disturbers of the peace, in restoring peace and in maintaining the independence of the country against attack from without

✤First Moroccan Crisis✤Algeciras Conference (1906)✤“encirclement”

✤Second Moroccan Crisis (1911)10

Imperialism: Major Events

4. Aggressive Nationalism

Pan-Slavism: The Balkans, 1914

The“Powder

Keg”of Europe

The“Spark

”

Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

The Assassination: Sarajevo

June 28, 1914

The Assassin:GavriloPrincip

Who’s To Blame?

The Schlieffen Plan

Recruitment Posters

A Young Australian Recruit

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

Womenand theWar

Effort

Financing the War

Munitions Workers

French Women Factory Workers

German Women Factory Workers

Red Cross Nurses

Women in the Army Auxiliary

Russian Women Soldiers

Posters:Wartime

Propaganda

Australian Poster

American Poster

Financing the War

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Canadian Poster

German Poster

Think of Your Children!

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German Poster

“The next candidates for the Noble Peace Prize”

The Western Front:

A “War of Attrition”

A Multi-Front War

The Western Front

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The Battle of the Marne (1914)

wGermans came within sight of Paris.

wEssentially, the end of mobility on the Western Front.

Trench Warfare

Trench Warfare

“No Man’s Land”

TheEastern

Front

Turkish Cavalry in Palestine

The Tsar with General Brusilov

The“Colonial”

Fronts

Sikh British Soldiers in India

Fighting in Africa

3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade

Fighting in Africa

British Sikh Mountain Gunners

Black Soldiers in the German

Schutztruppen[German E. Africa]

Fighting in China

French colonial marine infantry fromCochin, China - 1916

AmericaJoinsthe

Allies

The Sinking of the Lusitania

The Zimmerman Telegram

The War of the

Industrial Revolution:

NewTechnology

Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

French Renault Tank

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British Tank, 1915

U-Boats

Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

The Airplane

“Squadron Over the Brenta”

Max Edler von Poosch, 1917

The Zeppelin

FlameThrowers

GrenadeLaunchers

Poison Gas

Machine Gun

German Cartoon:“Fit for active service!”,

1918

11 a.m., November 11, 1918

The Armistice is Signed!

World War I Casualties

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2,500,000

5,000,000

7,500,000

10,000,000

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