WWI

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

WORLD WAR I

1914 - 1918

IT WAS CALLED...

  • The Great War
  • The War To End All Wars
  • The First Modern War

40 COUNTRIES FOUGHT IN WWI..

...including dozens of colonies

1917

THE U.S. DID NOT ENTER THE WAR UNTIL...

65 MILLION FIGHTING SOLDIERS

FOUGHT IN THE AIR

FIRST WAR TO BE...

CHEMICAL WEAPONS OF WAR

FIRST USE OF...

TANKS ON THE BATTLEFIELD

FIRST WAR WITH...

ADVANCED MACHINE GUNS

FIRST WAR WITH...

BIG BERTHA

INCLUDING...

More than 2,500 miles of trenches were dug along the 466 mile Western Front...

...that stretched from the English Channel to Switzerland

CASUALTIES:
9 Million Soldiers
6.6 Million Civilians

INCLUDING...

21 MILLION WOUNDED

$186 BILLION

TOTAL COST OF THE WAR...

$151 BILLION IN DAMAGES

PLUS...

FOUR EMPIRES COLLAPSED

9.5 MILLION GERMANS

LIVING OUTSIDE THE NEW BORDERS OF GERMANY

ISOLATIONISM

AFTER THE WAR, AMERICA RETURNED TO A POLICY OF...

ECONOMIC RUINS...

EUROPE WAS LEFT IN

...and on the path to another war.