1. War Consumes Europe

2. Alliance System
After the Archduke’s assassination the alliances followed through and supported one another.
Under the Schlieffen Plan Germany decided to attack France first because they Russia didn’t have the railroads and roads to get their troops to the Eastern German border as quickly.

3. Alliances
Great Britain entered WWI when Germany invaded neutral Belgium
Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
Allies: Great Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Italy

4. Western Front Western Front – the deadlocked region in northern France
Taxicabs rushed soldiers from Paris to the battle at the Marne
After the First Battle of the Marne, the Russians were entering the Eastern border of Germany

5. Western Front
Trench Warfare – soldiers fought each other from trenches
The space between the trenches was called no man’s land

6. Tools for War New tools for war Machine Guns Poison Gas Armored Tanks
Larger Artillery
Did not deliver a fast-moving war
Just killed huge numbers of people effectively

7. Eastern Front
The Eastern Front was the battlefield between the German and Russian border
Russia hadn’t become industrialized which kept them from being as productive
Russia’s only real asset were its huge numbers of soldiers

8. Aviation
Following WWI nations turned their war planes into commercial planes.