1. NOVEMBER 16, 2015 Finish Europe Video WWI & WWII notes
HW: Maps due Thursday 11/19
Political Map Quiz 11/19

2. Causes of WWI
M.A.I.N
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism

3. M.A.I.N Militarism: the policy of glorifying military power
Large military = power = national pride
Railway Howitzer was generally naval surplus that had been salvaged and mounted on a railroad car.

4. M.A.I.N
Alliances: an agreement between countries that states they will assist one another in a time of conflict

5. Triple Entente France, Great Britain and Soviet Union alliance
Also known as Allied Powers
USA will join in 1917
Identify each country by flag. Comment on Japan.

7. M.A.I.N
Imperialism
European countries politically and economically control colonies abroad
Spurred competition
Encouraged militarism
Increased tensions

8. M.A.I.N Nationalism Unified nations
Caused intense competition between nations
Led to independence movements and conflict
What does this poster translate? How does it illustrate nationalism?

9. The Powder Keg: The Balkans
Area of intense conflict and nationalism
Spark ignites on June 28, 1914 with assassination of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand

10. Examine this. Who are the two charactures
Examine this. Who are the two charactures? Break down the elements to help explain the war.

11. Russia declares war on Austria due to alliance with Serbia
Archduke and his wife are killed by Serbian nationalists
June 28, 1914
Austria declares war on Serbia
France declares war on Germany and Austria due to alliance with Russia
Germany declares war on Russia due to alliance with Austria
Germany declares war on France

12. Great Britain declares war on Germany due to alliance with France
Countries in British Commonwealth join the war effort (Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and India)
Great Britain declares war on Germany due to alliance with France
Germans and Austrians fight off advancing Russians on the Eastern Front
Germany invades Belgium and moves to attack France (Western Front)

13. War becomes “Total War”
Countries devoted all their resources to the war effort
Economy based on producing war supplies
Women started working in the men’s jobs
Rationing
Propaganda
Everyone was involved in the war effort, no longer limited to soldiers and the battlefields
More soldiers had died during WW1 than all the wars of the past 300 years combined!
Factories switched to producing goods for the war effort
Women started working in the jobs previously held by men (who were now in battle)
Citizens would ration goods in order to have more materials for war supplies
Governments would censor news so that citizens would continue to support the war (propaganda)

14. green=allies
Orange = central powers
Gray= neutral

15. Conditions on the Front in WWI
New Weapons Utilized
Machine Guns
Poison gas (Mustard Gas)
Tanks
Airplanes (Dog Fighting)
Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”
Disease and influenza

17. War Comes to an End Armistice signed
Fighting ends Nov. 11th at 11 am
Victory for Allies and defeat for Germany
Led to peace talks in Paris starting in 1919
Signed in a railroad cart (Germans would make France sign an armistice in the same railcar during WW2)
Last American killed was Henry Gunther, 1 minute before the armistice began
Termination of military hostilities within six hours of signature.
Immediate removal of all German troops from France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Alsace-Lorraine.
Subsequent removal of all German troops from territory on the west side of the Rhine plus 30 km radius bridgeheads of the right side of the Rhine at the cities of Mainz, Koblenz, and Cologne with ensuing occupation by Allied and US troops.
Removal of all German troops at the eastern front to German territory as it was on 1 August 1914.
Renunciation of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Russia and of the Treaty of Bucharest with Romania.
Internment of the German fleet.
Surrender of material: 5,000 cannons, 25,000 machine guns, 3,000 minenwerfers, 1,700 airplanes, 5,000 locomotive engines, and 150,000 railcars.

18. Legacy of “The Great War”
Extremely costly in both human lives and money
End of Empires
Infrastructure destroyed
Treaty of Versailles 1919
Peace process sets the stage for WW2
Germany must pay for war

19. WWI lead to WWII? Video

20. Between the Wars Europe struggles to rebuild Great Depression
Rise of Totalitarianism in Germany, Italy, and Japan
Germany and Japan expand

21. Axis Powers
1940,Germany, Italy and Japan form an alliance known as the Axis Powers

22. Allied Powers
Great Britain, France, USSR and later USA

23. The Yalta Conference
Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met in February, 1945 in Yalta, Ukraine
Discuss plans of dividing up Europe anticipating the defeat of Germany
Germany was divided and most of Eastern Europe was controlled by the Soviet Union

24. Results of WWII Europe Japan Germany and Italy defeated
Germany divided up between Allied powers
Eastern Europe and East Germany now under USSR control
Western Europe under democratic control
Japan
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
All lands conquered returned to pre-war status
Slowly recover thanks to Western democratic aid

25. Crash Course World History: WWII video