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1914-1918 The World at War 1914-1918 The World at War Created By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley H. S., Chappaqua, NY
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The 4 M.A.I.N. Causes of the War What were they?
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1. M ilitarism & Arms Race 187018801890190019101914 94130154268289398 Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br., Rus.] (in millions of £’s.) 1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures France10% Britain13% Russia39% Germany73% All this is evidence of an: Anglo-German Arms Race
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4 ✤ Triple Alliance (1881) ✤ Russian-German Reinsurgence Treaty (1887) ✤ “Splendid Isolation” (until 1902) ✤ Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902) ✤ Entente Cordial (1904) ✤ Triple Entente (1907) 4 2. Entangling A lliances
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Triple Entente: Triple Alliance:
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Two Armed Camps! Allied Powers: Central Powers:
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Europe in 1914
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3. I mperialism & Colonial Rivalries
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10 ✤ Berlin Conference (1884-85) ✤ Kruger Telegram (1902) ✤ I express to you my sincere congratulations that you and your people, without appealing to the help of friendly powers, have succeeded, by your own energetic action against the armed bands which invaded your country as disturbers of the peace, in restoring peace and in maintaining the independence of the country against attack from without ✤ First Moroccan Crisis ✤ Algeciras Conference (1906) ✤ “encirclement” ✤ Second Moroccan Crisis (1911) 10 Imperialism: Major Events
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4. Aggressive N ationalism
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Pan-Slavism: The Balkans, 1914 The “Powder Keg” of Europe
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The “Spark”
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family
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The Assassination: Sarajevo June 28, 1914 The Assassination: Sarajevo June 28, 1914
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The Assassin: Gavrilo Princip Gavrilo Princip
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Who’s To Blame?
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The Schlieffen Plan
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Recruitment Posters
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A Young Australian Recruit
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Recruits of the Central Powers Austro- Hungarians A German Soldier Says Farewell to His Mother
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New French Recruits
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A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier
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Women and the War Effort
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Financing the War
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Munitions Workers
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French Women Factory Workers
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German Women Factory Workers
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Red Cross Nurses
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Women in the Army Auxiliary
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Russian Women Soldiers
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Posters: Wartime Propaganda
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Australian Poster
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American Poster
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Financing the War
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Canadian Poster 37
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German Poster Think of Your Children!
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German Poster 39 “The next candidates for the Noble Peace Prize”
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The Western Front: A “War of Attrition”
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A Multi-Front War
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The Western Front
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43 The Battle of the Marne (1914) wGermans came within sight of Paris. wEssentially, the end of mobility on the Western Front.
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Trench Warfare
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“No Man’s Land”
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The Eastern Front
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Turkish Cavalry in Palestine
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The Tsar with General Brusilov
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The “Colonial” Fronts
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Sikh British Soldiers in India
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Fighting in Africa 3 rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade
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Fighting in Africa British Sikh Mountain Gunners Black Soldiers in the German Schutztruppen [German E. Africa]
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Fighting in China French colonial marine infantry from Cochin, China - 1916
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America Joins the Allies
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The Sinking of the Lusitania
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The Zimmerman Telegram
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The War of the Industrial Revolution: New Technology
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Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun
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French Renault Tank
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61 British Tank, 1915
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U-Boats
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Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats
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The Airplane “Squadron Over the Brenta” Max Edler von Poosch, 1917
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The Zeppelin
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Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers
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Poison Gas Machine Gun
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German Cartoon: “Fit for active service!”, 1918
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11 a.m., November 11, 1918 The Armistice is Signed!
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World War I Casualties
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