1. The Road To War

3. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

4. The Assassination: Sarajevo

5. The Assassin:
Gavrilo Princip

6. Who’s To Blame?

7. The Schlieffen Plan

8. A Multi-Front War

9. The Western Front

10. Cross-section of a front-line trench
Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare – type of fighting during World War I in which both sides dug trenches protected by mines and barbed wire
Cross-section of a front-line trench 

12. Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”

14. British trench, France, July 1916 (during the Battle of the Somme)

15. French soldiers firing over their own dead
All Quiet on the Western Front – trench warfare (9:27)

16. An aerial photograph of the opposing trenches and no-man's land in Artois, France, July 22, German trenches are at the right and bottom, British trenches are at the top left. The vertical line to the left of centre indicates the course of a pre-war road.

17. Officers walking through a flooded communication trench.

18. A photograph of a man suffering from trench foot.

19. Soldiers digging trenches while protected against gas attacks

20. 'Gassed'. Painting by John Singer Sargent, 1918/1919.

21. Poison Gas Deaths:
Country
Non-Fatal
Deaths
Total
British Empire
180,597
8,109
188,706
France
182,000
8,000
190,000
United States
71,345
1,462
72,807
Italy
55,373
4,627
60,000
Russia
419,340
56,000
475,340
Germany
191,000
9,000
200,000
Austria-Hungary
97,000
3,000
100,000
Others
1,000
10.000
1,205,655
91,198
1,296,853

22. British western front

23. British and German troops stand together during the Christmas Truce of 1914-15.

25. The Zimmerman Telegram

28. THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES, 1919

29. David Lloyd-George [Great Britain]
Woodrow Wilson [USA]
Orlando [Italy]
Georges Clemenceau [France]

30. TREATY OF VERSAILLES, 1919 REVENGE ON GERMANY THE TERMS
The Treaty was designed to cripple Germany militarily, territorially and economically
REVENGE ON GERMANY
WAR GUILT CLAUSE
Germany had to accept blame for starting WW1
GERMANY’S MILITARY FORCES REDUCED
NO UNION WITH AUSTRIA
- Army restricted to 100,000 men.
- No modern weapons such as tanks, military air force.
- Navy could not have battle ships over 10,000 tons and no U-Boats.
THE TERMS
OF THE TREATY OF
VERSAILLES
1919
REPARATIONS
Germany forced to pay massive fine for war damages - 1,000,000,000 Marks (6.6bn pounds).
GERMAN OVERSEAS TERRITORRIES
RHINELAND TO BE DE-MILITARISED
Germany lost Chinese ports [Amoy and Tsingtao], Pacific Islands, and African colonies [Tanganika and German SW Africa].
GERMAN NATIONAL TERRITORY
Germany lost national territory which was given to Belgium and Denmark, most went to Poland.

31. 1914--------------------1919
The Great War was to see the collapse of four continental empires. These were to be replaced by new nation states.

33. Vengeance! German Nation Source 5:
Today in the Hall of Mirrors of Versailles the disgraceful Treaty is being signed. Do not forget it! The German people will with unceasing labour press forward to reconquer the place among nations to which it is entitled. Then will come the vengeance for the shame of 1919.
From the ‘Deutsche Zeitung’ [‘The German Express’] newspaper.
Source 5:
Source 7:
Only fools, liars and criminals could hope for mercy from the enemy. In these nights hatred grew in me, hatred for those responsible for the dead.
By Adolf Hitler, who had served in the army and became a future leader of Germany