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Understanding Global Conflict: Effects of WWI

Explore how WWI shaped history with new weapons, alliances, and homefront impacts. Learn about battles, propaganda, and the war's aftermath.

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Understanding Global Conflict: Effects of WWI

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  1. Agenda 1/18/17 • Warm up #3 • Lecture #2 Global Conflict • Newspaper Project • Exit slip #3

  2. Warm up #3 • What are some ways that war overseas affects civilians at home? Sentence Starters : Wars overseas affect civilians at home by________

  3. Exit Slip #3 • World War I was the most devastating war in the history of the world because of the new weapons of war. • Explain how new weapons helped to increase the casualties and deaths in World War I. • Sentence Starter: New weapons helped to increase the casualties and deaths in World War because______ .

  4. Lecture#3 Global Conflict FLT Students will be able to examine the effects of WWI as they war spread to other continents.

  5. Weapons of World War I

  6. Gallipoli Campaign • Feb. 1915-Allies move to capture Ottoman Dardanelles strait • Hope to defeat Ottoman Empire (Central power ally) • Open supply line through region for Russia/ DEFEATED!

  7. Battles in Africa & Asia • Allies take control of German holdings in Asia & Africa • Britain & France use their colonial subjects to help in war efforts

  8. The Western Fronttrench warfare: line of trenches to the West of Germany that stretched from Belgium to Switzerland

  9. America Joins the Fight • Germany seeks to control Atlantic Ocean to stop supplies to Britain • Uses unrestricted submarine warfare- ships near Britain sunk without warning.

  10. Lusitania • Halts unrestricted policy-1915-Germans sink Lusitania= ANGERS U.S. • Renews unrestricted policy in 1917- STARVE Britain quickly 128 Americans Die

  11. Zimmerman Note • Renewal policy & efforts to enlist Mexico anger U.S. • Note discovered entice Mexico to fight with Germans and promise to gain their land in U.S. • April 1917-U.S. declares war against Germany

  12. Governments Wage Total War • WWI becomes total war- nations devote all resources to war • Governments take control of economy to produce war goods

  13. Rationing • Nations turn to rationing- limiting purchases of war-related goods • Propaganda- one-sided information to build morale & support war A Day

  14. Women & War • At home, thousands of women fill jobs previously held by men • Many women also experience the war by working as nurses

  15. Russia Withdraws • 1917-Civil unrest in Russia forces czar to step down from throne • Communist soon take control of Russia’s govt. • March 1918-Russia signs treaty with Germany- pulls out of war

  16. Central Powers Collapse • Russia gone- Germany moves most forces to Western Front • Engage in major fighting & Allies force Germans to retreat • Allies win war= Armistice- end fighting NOVEMBER 1918

  17. High Price • 8.5 million soldiers dead & 21 million wounded • War devastates European economies & drains national treasure • Many acres of land/home/villages/towns destroyed • DISILLUSIONMENT & DESPAIR

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