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WWI

WWI. Materiel, Propaganda, & Poetry. WWI At A Glance. June 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 ( Armstice ); Treaty of Versailles June 28, 1919 Great Adventure: “The war to end all wars” – “over by Christmas”  Huge disillusionment C20 Weapons with C19 Tactics First Fully Mechanized War:

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WWI

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  1. WWI Materiel, Propaganda, & Poetry

  2. WWI At A Glance • June 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 (Armstice); Treaty of Versailles June 28, 1919 • Great Adventure: “The war to end all wars” – “over by Christmas” •  Huge disillusionment • C20 Weapons with C19 Tactics • First Fully Mechanized War: • Machine guns • Tanks • Airplanes • Chemical Weapons • Flame Throwers • Irrational Causes and Fighting Techniques • Beg. With Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, June 28, 1914

  3. WWI: The Toll • Allied Powers • Dead: 5,525,000 • Wounded: 12,831,500 • Missing: 4,121,000 • Total: 22,477,500 • France: • Dead / Wounded: 1,397,800 / 4,266,000 • Great Britain • Dead / Wounded: 886,939 / 1,663,435 • Incl. Imperial Forces (Australia, Canada, India, etc.):1,115,597 / 2,090,212 • ~1,500/day for 4.3 years • United States • Dead / Wounded: 116,708 / 205,690 • Russian Empire • Dead / Wounded: 1,811,000 – 2,254,369 / 3,749,000 – 4,950,000

  4. WWI: The Toll • Central Powers • Dead: 4,386,000 • Wounded: 8,388,000 • Missing: 3,629,000 • Total: 16,403,000 • Austria-Hungary • Dead: 1,100,000 • Wounded: 3,620,000 • German Empire • Dead: 2,050,897 • Wounded: 4,247,143

  5. WWI: The Aftermath • The Lost Generation • Public disillusionment in idealism, progress, technology, government, institutions, conventional morality • Sense that humanity is unknown to itself • Freudian Psychoanalysis (Death Wish) • The greater part of our nature is the subconscious • We desire and seek conflict automatically • Levels of “Shell Shock” (PTSD) and other disorders never seen before • Pervasive traumatic effect in the general culture, which is represented in literature and art of the 1920s-1930s.

  6. Recruitment Poster & Avant-Garde Parody (BLAST no. 2 July 1915)

  7. Suggested Further Reading • Vera Brittain • Testament of Youth (1933) • Ernest Hemingway • The Sun Also Rises (1926) • A Farewell to Arms (1929) • Erich Maria Remarque • All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) • T.S. Eliot • The Waste Land (1922) • Virginia Woolf • Mrs. Dalloway (1925) • To the Lighthouse (1927)

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