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Warmup
• What made WWI so deadly?
WWI: Important Battles & Events
Total War
Ver
dun
Ver
dun
YpresYpres
SommeSomme
Mar
neM
arne
First Battle of the MarneTimeline: September 1914
2nd Battle of Ypres
TIMELINE: 1915
Verdun - February to June 1916
Battle of the Somme - July 1916
• Aerial Bombardment
• Lack of Surprise• 80% of BEF
advance - 750,000 men
• Caught in No Man’s Land
Caporetto
Caporetto
GallipoliGallipoli
JutlandJutland
TannenbergTannenberg
Tannenberg
Gallipoli
Jutland
Caporetto
Battle of Cambrai
TIMELINE: 1917
• First use of the British secret weapon—the TANK
• First successful penetration of German trenches/line
• Cambrai is in France
On April 2, 1917…
President Woodrow Wilson declared WAR…
THE AMERICANS BEGIN TO GO “OVER THERE”
THEN SOMETHING else HUGE HAPPENS…
TIMELINE: November 1917
• Bolshevik Revolution: communists take over Russia– Led by Vladimir Lenin
• This leads to Russia’s withdrawal from WWI– Treaty of Brest-Litovsk:
peace agreement between Russia & Central Powers
Chateau-ThierryTIMELINE: JUNE
1918
• American Expeditionary Force (A.E.F) led by John J. Pershing
• First fight for the A.E.F in WWI
• Successful in stopping German advance
Second Battle of the MarneTIMELINE: JULY 1918
•Germans last desperate offensive of the war
•HEAVY CASUALTIES–Nearly 262,717 men killed or wounded
•Destroyed the German ability to attack again
Saint-MihielTIMELINE: SeP-Nov 1918
•First mainly A.E.F battle•Biggest A.E.F operation and
victory of WWI•Pushed Germans back to
Armistice line–11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 armistice signed—WWI IS OVER!
In the End
Wilson’s Goal
• Peace without victory
• New world order
• 14 Points – League of Nations
• Leads to Treaty of Versailles
• U.S. Congress rejects - never ratifies
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