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Chapter 23-1,2.

Chapter 23-1,2. Identify and analyze America’s involvement in World War I. Long term causes of American Involvement. p. 578. The Triple Alliance – Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary Alarmed Russia  Franco Russian Alliance Germany’s navy challenged Britain’s naval superiority

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Chapter 23-1,2.

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  1. Chapter 23-1,2. Identify and analyze America’s involvement in World War I

  2. Long term causes of American Involvement p. 578 • The Triple Alliance – Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary • Alarmed Russia  Franco Russian Alliance • Germany’s navy challenged Britain’s naval superiority • Entente Cordiale (friendly understanding) •  Triple Entente

  3. Triple Alliance Austria, Germany, Italy

  4. Triple Entente

  5. Immediate Causes of the War WWI is referred to as “The Great War” • Austrian ruler Archduke Franz Ferdinand visited Bosnia • Bosnian revolutionary Gavrilo Princip shot Franz Ferdinand • The Black Hand Bosnian Nationalism

  6. Dominos fall • Austria Hungary decided to crush Serbia • They feared Russia might retaliate • Germany promised to help Austria if Russia interfered. • France promised to support Russia if war began Guess what happened… Everyone but Britain went to war!

  7. Germany Attacks France • Germany launched a massive invasion of France • When they went through neutral Belgium, the British entered the war.

  8. Allies Central Powers • The Triple Entente • France, Russia, Britain • And later… Italy Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria

  9. Central Powers

  10. How it went… • The German fast attack worked at first came within 30 miles of taking Paris • Suddenly the Russians attacked the German flank • Germany had to pull troops away from France to deal with the Russian attack. • Then fighting settled into trenches – didn’t change for 3 years

  11. Germany spread across Europe

  12. Trench Warfare

  13. Trench Sleep

  14. America • President Wilson wanted America to be neutral • 8 million German immigrants and 4.5 million Irish supported the Central Powers. • President Wilson’s cabinet however….

  15. Propaganda • Information designed to influence opinion • Britain cut the transatlantic cable so that only British reports of the war got through • Claimed: Germans used battlefield corpses to make fertilizer and soap

  16. Propaganda

  17. p. 582 U-Boats • German word “Unterseeboot” • Germany announced that they would sink any shop in the waters around Britain • A German sub sank the “Lusitania” killing 1,200 passengers including 128 Americans.

  18. Lusitania – good day

  19. The Lusitania – bad day

  20. The Zimmermann Telegram • Arthur Zimmermann cabled the German ambassador in Mexico • He proposed that Mexico ally itself with Germany in the event of a US war with Germany. • He said Mexico could regain its “lost territory in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona”

  21. Germany resumes sub warfare • Germans believed they could starve Britain out of the war • They sank 6 American merchant ships • On April 2, 1917 President Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of War

  22. Torpedo hits a merchant ship

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