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A Global Conflict

Explore the alliances formed during WWI, including Australia and Japan's involvement, India's support for England, and the Ottoman Turks' ties to Germany. Learn about the Gallipoli Campaign, USA's entry into the war, and the events that ultimately led to victory. |

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A Global Conflict

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  1. A Global Conflict 29.3

  2. Countries Ally with Allies • Australia and Japan now w/allies • United States • India supplied troops to England (their oppressor) • Why would Indians want to do this? • Ottoman Turks and Bulgaria w/Germany and Central Powers • Great Powers look for allies (from colonies) to balance power

  3. Gallipoli Campaign • Took place on the Gallipoli peninsula (Gelibolu in modern Turkey) in the Ottoman Empire • Strategy of Allies • Attack Ott. Emp. (Dardanelles Strait) • Gateway to Ott. Capital Constantinople • Reasons: • Allies could take Constant. • Defeat Turks • Establish supply line to Russia TURKEY

  4. Asia and Africa • Germany’s colonial possession attacked • Japanese take possessions in China • Eng. and France attack African colonies (take 3) • Fighting troops from English and French colonies: • India, South Africa, Senegal, Egypt, Algeria, and Indochina (Vietnam)

  5. USA…USA…USA… • Germany’s submarine tactics influence U.S. • Germany begins sinking ships in waters around England • May 7, 1915 Lusitania sunk • Passenger ship carrying ammunition and U.S. citizens • Woodrow Wilson sends angry message to Germany!!! • Germans gamble that naval blockade will starve England • Germans sink 3 more American ships • U.S. still doesn’t enter war!!!

  6. What Leads USA to War? • The discovery of the Zimmerman Note • Called for Mexico to support Germany in exchange for Germany helping Mexico reconquer lost territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona

  7. Effects at Homehttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/great-war/#part02 • Governments wage “total” war • Wartime governments took control of economies by • Raising taxes • Borrowing money • Rationing food and supplies • Introducing price controls • Wartime governments took control of public opinion by • Censoring of the press • Using propaganda to win public support • Committee on Public Information

  8. Victory on Eastern Front • German victory • Food and fuel shortages in Russia • 5.5 million dead, wounded, or captured • Russians refuse to fight • Russian Revolution leads to Vladimir Lenin seizing power • Offers Germany a truce • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: 1918

  9. VICTORY • Germany launched one final offensive against the allies in early 1918 • Weakens exhausted German forces • Allies counterattacked and drove Germany back across France and Belgium • German citizens rioted and overthrow Kaiser Wilhelm II • Germany’s new government signs an ARMISTICE, or agreement to end fighting • War ends November 11, 1918

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