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1914-1918: The World at War

1914-1918: The World at War. Causes of the War. 1. The Alliance System. Triple Entente :. Triple Alliance :. Two Armed Camps!. Allied Powers :. Central Powers :. The Major Players: 1914-17. Allied Powers :. Central Powers :. Nicholas II [Rus]. Wilhelm II [Ger]. George V [Br].

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1914-1918: The World at War

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  1. 1914-1918:The Worldat War

  2. Causesof theWar

  3. 1. The Alliance System Triple Entente: Triple Alliance:

  4. Two Armed Camps! Allied Powers: Central Powers:

  5. The Major Players: 1914-17 Allied Powers: Central Powers: Nicholas II [Rus] Wilhelm II [Ger] George V [Br] Victor Emmanuel II [It] Enver Pasha[Turkey] Pres. Poincare [Fr] Franz Josef [A-H]

  6. Europe in 1914

  7. 2. Militarism & Arms Race Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br., Rus.] in millions

  8. 3. Economic & Imperial Rivalries

  9. 4. Aggressive Nationalism

  10. Pan-Slavism: The Balkans, 1914 The“Powder Keg”of Europe

  11. The“Spark”

  12. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

  13. The Assassination: Sarajevo

  14. The Assassin: GavriloPrincip

  15. Who’s To Blame?

  16. The Schlieffen Plan

  17. German Atrocities in Belgium

  18. Mobilization • Home by Christmas! • No major war in 50 years! • Nationalism! It's a long way to Tipperary, It's a long way to go; It's a long way to Tipperary, To the sweetest girl I know! Goodbye, Piccadilly, Farewell, Leicester Square, It's a long, long way to Tipperary, But my heart's right there!

  19. Recruitment Posters

  20. Recruits of the Central Powers A German Soldier Says Farewell to His Mother Austro-Hungarians

  21. New French Recruits

  22. Posters:WartimePropaganda

  23. Australian Poster

  24. American Poster

  25. Financing the War

  26. German Poster Think of Your Children!

  27. The Western Front: A “War of Attrition”

  28. A Multi-Front War

  29. The Western Front

  30. Trench Warfare

  31. Trench Warfare “No Man’s Land”

  32. Verdun – February, 1916 • German offensive. • Each side had 500,000 casualties.

  33. The Somme – July, 1916 • 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. • Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.

  34. War IsHELL !!

  35. Sacrifices in War

  36. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

  37. AmericaJoinstheAllies

  38. The Sinking of the Lusitania

  39. The Zimmerman Telegram

  40. The YanksAre Coming!

  41. Americans in the Trenches

  42. The War of theIndustrial Revolution:NewTechnology

  43. French Renault Tank

  44. British Tank at Ypres

  45. U-Boats

  46. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

  47. The Airplane “Squadron Over the Brenta”Max Edler von Poosch, 1917

  48. The Flying Aces of World War I FrancescoBarraco, It. Eddie “Mick”Mannoch, Br. Eddie Rickenbacher, US Manfred vonRichtoffen, Ger.[The “RedBaron”] Rene PaukFonck, Fr. Willy Coppens deHolthust, Belg.

  49. Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant

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