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1914-1918: The World at War

1914-1918: The World at War. Various Names. “Family Feud” “The War to End All Wars” “The War to ‘Make the World Safe for Democracy’”. Causes of the War. 1. The Alliance System. Triple Entente :. Triple Alliance :. Two Armed Camps!. Allied Powers :. Central Powers :.

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1914-1918: The World at War

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  1. 1914-1918:The Worldat War

  2. Various Names • “Family Feud” • “The War to End All Wars” • “The War to ‘Make the World Safe for Democracy’”

  3. Causesof theWar

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

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

  6. 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]

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

  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. A Young Australian Recruit

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

  22. New French Recruits

  23. A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier

  24. Womenand theWarEffort

  25. Financing the War

  26. For Recruitment

  27. Munitions Workers

  28. German Women Factory Workers

  29. A Woman Ambulance Driver

  30. Red Cross Nurses

  31. Russian Women Soldiers

  32. Spies • “Mata Hari” • Real Name: Margareetha Geertruide Zelle • German Spy!

  33. Posters:WartimePropaganda

  34. Australian Poster

  35. American Poster

  36. German Poster

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

  38. A Multi-Front War

  39. The Western Front

  40. Trench Warfare

  41. Trench Warfare “No Man’s Land”

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

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

  44. War IsHELL !!

  45. Sacrifices in War

  46. TheEasternFront

  47. The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915

  48. Turkish Cavalry in Palestine

  49. T. E. Lawrence & the “Arab Revolt”, 1916-18

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