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War breaks out

War breaks out. World War I The Great War The War to end all wars. Essential Understandings.

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War breaks out

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  1. War breaks out World War I The Great War The War to end all wars

  2. Essential Understandings • World War I (1914-1918) was caused by competition among industrial nations in Europe and a failure of diplomacy. The war transformed European and American life, wrecked the economies of Europe, and planted the seeds for a second world war.

  3. Essential Questions • What factors produced World War I? • What were the major events of the war? • Who were the major leaders? • What were the outcomes and global effects of World War I? • What were the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?

  4. Countries choose sides • Russia sides with Serbia, moves troops to borders of Aus-Hun and Germany • Germany declares war on Russia and throws in France for good measure • Britain declares war on Germany • Holy cow! Can you say that again? • Central Powers – Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire • Allied Powers – Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Japan • Summer of 1914 – millions marched off to battle thinking it would be a short war

  5. Stalemate • Schlieffen Plan – defeat France quickly, turn attention to Russia • Yeah, not so much • France holds Germany off in the West while Russia invades from the East • War for Germany now in deadlocked conflict on Western and Eastern Fronts

  6. Trench Warfare • War settles into trench warfare • Miles and miles of parallel trenches for protection from enemy fire • Pure misery – “The men slept in mud, washed in mud, ate mud, and dreamed mud.” • Rats, no fresh food, impossible to sleep, disease • “No man’s land” – bombed out area between trenches • Men sent “over the top” to take opposing trenches, met with devastating machine gun fire • Staying in own trench not necessarily safe either – enemy artillery fire, shot by own men if you didn’t go or came back too early

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