Chapter 29 Section C A Global Conflict A Truly Global Conflict Fighting Rages Beyond Europe 1.Allies attack the Dardanelles to try to take Constantinople. This would open supply line to Russia. 2.The attack on the Dardanelles was called the Gallipoli Campaign 3.This campaign will end in failure

A Global Conflict 4.The British meet with more success in Southwest Asia through the Arab Revolt and the efforts of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) 5.The Allies will take Baghdad, Jerusalem and Damascus 6.The Japanese will take German outposts in China and Germany’s Pacific island colonies

A Global Conflict The United States Enter the War 1.Germany established a naval blockade of England after England had imposed one on Germany 2.Germany began unrestricted submarine warfare

A Global Conflict 3.Germany’s previous use of this tactic resulted in the sinking of the Lusitania (1198 people died)

A Global Conflict 4.U.S had been outraged by the Lusitania sinking and issued a strong protest to Germany 5.When Germany reinstated this tactic they knew that it might draw the U.S. into the war

A Global Conflict 6.Arthur Zimmerman (Germany’s Foreign Secretary) offers to help Mexico “reconquer” the land it lost to the U.S. if they would aide Germany (Zimmerman Telegram)

A Global Conflict 7.President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany April 2, 1917.

A Global Conflict War Affects the Home Front Governments Wage Total War 1.Countries devoted all their resources to the war effort 2.War time governments took control of the economy 3.Rationing of items needed for the war effort occurred

A Global Conflict 4. Governments begin censoring war news 5.Governments begin a system of propaganda in order to gain support for the war effort

A Global Conflict Russia’s War Effort Weakens 1.Because Russia had not industrialized, it was on the verge of collapse 2.Allies were unable to ship supplies to Russia because of German and Turkish blockades 3.The Russian armies only asset were its number of men 4.The war would be world wide

A Global Conflict The Allies Win the War Russia withdraws from the War 1.Czar Nicholas II abdicates the throne in March 1917 to avoid revolution 2.Russia’s new government pledges to continue to fight Germany but after nearly 5.5 million Russian soldiers had been wounded, killed or taken prisoner, Russia stops her attacks against Germany 3.November 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power in Russia’s second revolution 4.Lenin sign’s a peace treaty with Germany (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk)

Russia’s Change

A Global Conflict A Failed Final Push 1.Germany launches the Second Battle of the Marne and gets to within 40 miles of Paris 2.U.S. troops fill the gaps in the Allied ranks and halt the German counterattack 3.November 9, 1918, Kaiser Wilhelm II was forced to step down 4.Germany’s new government signed an armistice (agreement to stop fighting) with France’s Marshal Foch ( November 11, 1918)

Germany’s Armistice

TA29D Read Pages Copy and Define the Terms on Page 861 Copy and Answer Questions 17 & 18 on Page 862