1. Agenda 1/18/17 Warm up #3 Lecture #2 Global Conflict Newspaper Project
Exit slip #3

2. Warm up #3
What are some ways that war overseas affects civilians at home?
Sentence Starters :
Wars overseas affect civilians at home by________

3. Exit Slip #3
World War I was the most devastating war in the history of the world because of the new weapons of war.
Explain how new weapons helped to increase the casualties and deaths in World War I.
Sentence Starter:
New weapons helped to increase the casualties and deaths in World War because______ .

4. Lecture#3 Global Conflict
FLT Students will be able to examine the effects of WWI as they war spread to other continents.

5. Weapons of World War I

6. Gallipoli Campaign
Feb Allies move to capture Ottoman Dardanelles strait
Hope to defeat Ottoman Empire (Central power ally)
Open supply line through region for Russia/ DEFEATED!

7. Battles in Africa & Asia
Allies take control of German holdings in Asia & Africa
Britain & France use their colonial subjects to help in war efforts

8. The Western Front trench warfare: line of trenches to the West of Germany that stretched from Belgium to Switzerland

9. America Joins the Fight
Germany seeks to control Atlantic Ocean to stop supplies to Britain
Uses unrestricted submarine warfare- ships near Britain sunk without warning.

10. Lusitania 128 Americans Die
Halts unrestricted policy-1915-Germans sink Lusitania= ANGERS U.S.
Renews unrestricted policy in STARVE Britain quickly
128 Americans Die

11. Zimmerman Note Renewal policy & efforts to enlist Mexico anger U.S.
Note discovered entice Mexico to fight with Germans and promise to gain their land in U.S.
April 1917-U.S. declares war against Germany

12. Governments Wage Total War
WWI becomes total war- nations devote all resources to war
Governments take control of economy to produce war goods

13. Rationing
Nations turn to rationing- limiting purchases of war- related goods
Propaganda- one-sided information to build morale & support war
A Day

14. Women & War
At home, thousands of women fill jobs previously held by men
Many women also experience the war by working as nurses

15. Russia Withdraws
1917-Civil unrest in Russia forces czar to step down from throne
Communist soon take control of Russia’s govt.
March 1918-Russia signs treaty with Germany- pulls out of war

16. Central Powers Collapse
Russia gone- Germany moves most forces to Western Front
Engage in major fighting & Allies force Germans to retreat
Allies win war= Armistice- end fighting NOVEMBER 1918

17. High Price 8.5 million soldiers dead & 21 million wounded
War devastates European economies & drains national treasure
Many acres of land/home/villages/towns destroyed
DISILLUSIONMENT & DESPAIR