The Great War

1. The Great War Presented by Dr. Victoria Belco, Portland State University

2. Handouts • The Road to WWI • WWI lecture outline • Aftermath of WWI

3. Three men in 1914 • Vladimir Lenin • Benito Mussolini • Adolf Hitler

4. The Great Powers, 1914 • Britain • Germany • France • Russia • Austro-Hungarian Empire • Italy

7. The Road to WWI • Moroccan crises • Balkan crises and wars • The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

12. Not that Franz Ferdinand

13. Archduke Franz Ferdinand

14. FF and wife Sophie

15. With family

16. With elephant in Ceylon

17. In Sarajevo, June 28, 1914

18. Gavrilo Princip

19. The shot

20. Arrest of Princip

21. Going to court

22. trial

24. Funeral of FF

25. The Assassination • What did the Serbian government know? • What did Germany know? What did Germany want? • What would France do? • What should Britain have done differently?

26. The July Crisis • The “German memo” (“blank check”) • Austrian demands (‘the ultimatum”) • The Russian assurance • Threats of mobilization and secret mobilization

27. Causes: External factors • Alliance system • Arms race • War plans • Great Power competition

29. Causes: Internal factors • Nationalism • Austria-Hungary: nationalities “problem” • Russia • France • England • Germany

30. What did “war” mean in 1914? • “This is the hour we have yearned for” – “to Paris!” • “A jolly little war” • “To Berlin!” • “We’ll be home by Christmas!”

31. What does “total war” mean?

32. Everyone does his/her “bit”

35. The Homefront

36. Women did their “bit” in traditional and non-traditional ways

42. Women ship builders 1918

43. London 1918

44. Women’s forestry corps, Britain 1918

45. Crane operators, Britain 1918

46. Coal heavers 1917

47. Brick-making factory

48. Munitions workers 1917

49. Encouraging Enlistment in Britain