1. The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution
Chapter 25
The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis:
War and Revolution

2. Europe in 1914
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3. The Road to World War I Nationalism and Internal Dissent Militarism
Diplomacy based on national states to bring peace
Led to competition instead of cooperation
Socialist labor movements create fear
Militarism
Conscription
Influence of military leaders
The Outbreak of War: The Summer of 1914
The effects of the Balkan Wars prior to 1914
Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife Sophia, June 28, 1914
German “full support” to Austria
Russian mobilization
Schlieffen Plan 

4. The Schlieffen Plan
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5. The War 1914-195: Illusions & Stalemate
European attitudes toward the beginning of war
Failure of the Schlieffen Plan
First Battle of the Marne, September 6-10, 1914
Russian failures
Battle of Tannenberg, August 30, 1914
Battle of Masurian Lakes, September 15, 1914
Austrian failures
Galicia and Serbia
Germans come to Austria’s aid

6. Battle Scene in Northern France

7. The War 1916-1917: The Great Slaughter
Trench warfare
“No-man’s land”
“Softening up” the enemy
Battle of Verdun, 70,000 lost
Battle of the Somme, 1916
Heaviest one-day loss in WWI

8. Trench Warfare in France

9. The Western Front,
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10. The Eastern Front,
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11. The Widening of the War Ottoman Empire enters the war
Battle of Gallipoli, April 1915
Italy enters the war, May 1915, against Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria enters the war, September 1915, on the side of the Central Powers
Middle East
Lawrence of Arabia ( )
Entry of the United States
The United States tried to remain neutral
Sinking of the Lusitania, May 7, 1915
Return to unrestricted submarine warfare January 1917
United States enters the war, April 6, 1917
Bolshevik Revolution, 1917

12. A New Kind of Warfare New Technology Airplanes Machine Guns Zeppelins
Tanks

13. The Home Front: The Impact of Total War
Governments become more centralized
Conscription
Effects on Economics
Public order and public opinion
Dealing with unrest
Defense of the Real Act
Propaganda
Social Impact of Total War
Labor benefits
New roles for women
Male concern over wages
Women began to demand equal pay
Gains for women

14. War and Revolution: Russia
The Russian Revolution
Nicholas II was an autocratic ruler
Russia not prepared for war
Influence of Rasputin
The March Revolution
Problems in Petrograd
March of the women, March 8, 1917
Calls for a general strike
Soldiers join the marchers
Provisional Government takes control
Alexander Kerensky ( )
Tried to carry on the war
Soviets sprang up
Bolshviks the most important

15. Russian Revolutions The Bolshevik Revolution Civil war
Under the leadership of Vladimir Ulianov,
Sent back to Russia in a sealed train by the Germans
“Peace, land and bread”
Bolsheviks control Petrograd and Moscow soviets
Collapse of Provisional Government, November 6-7, 1917
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, March 3, 1918
Civil war
Bolshevik (Red) army and Anti-Bolshevik (White) army
Red Terror by the Cheka
Allied invasion
Differences among the white army
Communists and “War communism”
Invasion of allied troops
Communists will control Russia

16. The Last Year of the War Last German offensive, March 21-July 18, 1918
Allied counterattack, Second Battle of the Marne, July 18, 1918
General Ludendorff informs German Leaders that the war is lost
William II abdicates, November 9, 1918
Republic established
Armistice, November 11, 1918

17. The Peace Settlement
Palace of Versailles, January 1919, 27 Allied nations
Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points
Pragmatism of other states
Lloyd George determined to make Germany pay
Georges Clemenceau of France concerned with his nation’s security
January 25, 1919, the principle of the League of Nations adopted

18. The Treaty of Versailles
Five separate treaties (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire)
The most important was the Treaty of Versailles, June 18, 1919
Article 231, War Guilt Clause
100,000 man army
Loss of Alsace and Lorraine
Sections of Prussia to the new Polish state
German charges of a “dictated peace”

19. The Other Peace Treaties
German and Russian Empires lost territory in eastern Europe
New nation-states: Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Hungary
Romania acquired additional lands from Russia, Hungary, and Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Compromises will lead to future problems
Minorities in every eastern European states
Ottoman Empire dismembered
Promises of independence of Arab states in the Middle East
Mandates
France – Lebanon and Syria
Britain – Iraq and Palestine
United States Senate rejects the Versailles Peace Treaty

20. Europe in 1919
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21. The Middle East in 1919
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22. Discussion Questions
Describe what you might think were the effects of the industrial revolution on the fighting in World War I.
How did the industrial revolution help to create the trench warfare?
What was the effect of the entry of the United States into World War I.
What were the changes on the map of Europe as a result of World War I?

23. Web Links Archduke Francis Ferdinand Trench Warfare
American Expeditionary Force
Bolshevik Revolution
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Treaty of Versailles