Explain how ‘Social Darwinism’ helped lead to European ...Explain how ‘Social Darwinism’...

Explain how ‘Social Darwinism’ helped lead to European Imperialism…

USE YOUR NOTES

Los hablantes de español 'Do Now'

En tus propias palabras describe 'imperialismo'

‘Do Now’

World War I 1914 - 1918 -- Otto Von Bismarck stated years before the war… “I shall not live to see the Great War, but you will see it, and it will start in the east!”

‘The Great War’ as it was called, killed or injured 37 million people.

-- 32 Countries fought in WWI

World War I Deaths by Country. 20 Million Total!

WWI Map ActivityUse page 823 in the textbook to label the following countries during WWI…

Triple Alliance (In one Color)…1)Austro-Hungarian Empire2)Germany3)Ottoman Empire4)Bulgaria

Triple Entente (In a different Color)1)France2)Russia3) United Kingdom4)Italy (U.S in 1917)

Why??? Remember MAINMilitarism-- Extreme pride in the military, to the point of aggression and arrogance!

Alliances-- A tangled web of alliances, “If someone attacks you, i’ll attack them!”

Imperialism-- European countries battling for power and land all over the world!

Nationalism-- Extreme pride in one's country, to the point of blind aggression

Militarism

Alliances!

Imperialism!

NationalismGerman leader Kaiser Wilhelm

The Industrial Revolution Used for War...

-- Machine Guns

-- Tanks

-- Landmines

-- Artillery

-- Poison Gas

A complete and bloody change in the way that war was conducted

“You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye

who cheer when soldier lads march by

sneak home and pray you’ll never know

The hell where youth and laughter go.”

-- Siegfried Sassoon, “Suicide in the Trenches”

A war of ‘Attrition’

Attrition means to wear someone or something down slowly over time!

The ‘Great War’ was fought in trenches, with very little progress made by either side.

TOTAL WAREverything was dedicated to fighting the war

-- Drafts were imposed: you fight or you go to prison

-- Economic warfare: cutting off supplies, stopping trade

-- Women took over many of the jobs left empty by men fighting

-- Governments controlled the use of resources and what was made

“The War to end all wars.” 1914 - 191837 Million Casualties