Chapter 27
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
CAUSES OF WWI
- MILITARISM
- ALLIANCE SYSTEM
- IMPERIALISM
- NATIONALISM
- significant individuals
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MAINS iS THE ESSAY QUESTION!
BUT YOU CAN'T JUST LIST THEM; YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN THEM AND USE EXAMPLES!
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PURSUIT OF PEACE
- Modern Olympics
- Nobel Peace Prize
- First Universal Peace Conference
- PACIFISM: OPPOSITION TO ALL WAR
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AGGRESSIVE NATIONALISM
- France lost Franco-Prussian War
- France wants revenge!
- PAN-SLAVISM: all Slavic people share a nationality
- Uprisings against Empires (A-H and Ottoman)
- Balkans: "powder keg of Europe"
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COUNTRY-STYLE COMPETITION
- Fighting over colonies
- Expanding armies and navies
- Wanted to strut their stuff!
- Tangled up in alliances (TA & TE)
- Remember the string activity!
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POWDER KEG
- Serbians resist Austria-Hungary
- Black Hand: Serbian group
- Gavrilo Princip: 19 year old assassin
- Shoots Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife Sophie
- ULTIMATUM: SET OF DEMANDS
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AUSTRIA DECLARES WAR ON SERBIA
GERMANY AND rUSSIA JUMP IN...BRING EVERYONE ELSE
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THE SCHLIEFFEN PLAN
- Germany's plan for Britain and France
- Avoid a two-front war...
- France first, then Russia
- Invades Belgium
- Great Britain enters war
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STALEMATE
- Schlieffen Plan fails
- Lose Battle of the Marne
- STALEMATE: NEITHER SIDE WINNING OR LOSING
- Lines stagnated for 4 years!
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TRENCHIN'
- Remember our letters and worksheets...
- Rats, lice, sickness, grossness
- "NO MAN'S LAND": in between the trenches
- "Over the top"
- Offensives like Verdun (CP) and Somme (A)
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MODERN WEAPONRY
- Machine guns
- Poison gas
- Armored tank
- Zeppelins and airplanes
- Submarines...USW
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- Eastern Europe: Tannenberg
- Russia is a mess!
- Italy fights and loses at Caporetto
- Outside Europe: Asia, Middle East
- Colonists also served...expected independence
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ECONOMICS
- Conscription: "the draft"
- Civilian labor
- Taxes, loans, rationing
- Spent $$$$$ on propaganda
- Women took up working on the home front
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LOW MORALE
- People were starting to desert
- Russia revolted!
- Communists overthrew czar
- TREATY OF BREST-LITOVSK:
- ENDS RUSSIA'S TIME IN WWI
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GERMANY NOW CAN FOCUS ON THE WESTERN FRONT...
CUE SUPERMAN THEME MUSIC.....
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US ENTRY INTO WWI
- Unrestricted submarine warfare
- The Lusitania is sunk
- Cultural/Economic ties to Britain
- Zimmerman Note
- Just the boost the Allies needed
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ENDING THE WAR
- Huge German offensive falls apart
- German citizens begin revolting
- A-H and O-E are falling apart
- ARMISTICE: agreement to end fighting
- 11/11/1918
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NOW WHAT?
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COSTS OF WAR
- 8.5+ million people died
- Not too mention the killer flu
- Land is destroyed
- Everyone was angry (scapegoats)
- Governments fell apart
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PARIS PEACE TALKS
- BIG THREE: Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau
- Wilson's 14 points are largely ignored
- Self-determination is crazy!
- He gets a League of Nations...
- But the U.S. can't/won't even join!!
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TREATY OF VERSAILLES
- Based on revenge against Germany
- War Guilt Clause
- REPARATIONS: paying for the war
- Limited military, took away land
- Pretty much led to WWII
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WIDESPREAD GROUCHINESS
- New countries popped up
- Overseas colonies were MANDATED
- Italy, Japan and Russia were angry
- Only bright spot: League of Nations
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ANY QUESTIONS?
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