• FEB 2015

• R.A.W.

• UNIT 6 • THE GREAT WAR

(1914-1918) • AIM 1

• What were the M.A.I.N. causes of the Great War?

16 Million Dead 37 Million Dead, Wounded or Missing

EUROPE 2013

• 1-was caused by militarism, alliance systems, imperialism & nationalism

• 2-was sparked in the Balkans(the peninsula where Greece is) and blossomed into a global war

• 3-was fought with highly destructive weapons made possible by modern technology

• 4-resulted in enormous human & economic losses directly leading to WWII

World War I Overview

Balkan Peninsula

• I. ELECTION OF 1912 • Woodrow Wilson (D) WINS!! • Campaigns on Neutrality & Progressivism

• William Howard Taft (R) • Theodore Roosevelt (Bull

Moose) • Eugene V. Debs (S)

II. The M.A.I.N. Causes of

WWI

Militarism -the glorification of military power

arose throughout Europe • armies & navies expanded with

advanced weaponry • Britain & Germany competing for

BETTER guns, ships, planes, etc

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Alliances

• fear & suspicion led to a feeling that there is “safety in numbers” so

countries banded together • Signed Alliance treaties

Imperialism

• Britain, France, Germany, etc. competed for colonial gains around the world(Africa)

• all nations needed colonial raw

materials to fuel their militarism

Nationalism • Europe in the 1800s & early 1900s was a place

of aggressive nationalism - tension • -Germans were proud of their new industrial,

military, unified nation • -France wanted to regain its position as a

leading European power • “Our NATION is SUPREME and must

E X P A N D”

III. Assassination • June 1914 Archduke Franz

Ferdinand, Heir to Austria-Hungary throne, was assassinated while visiting Sarejevo by a Serbian Gavrilo Princip.

• Austria gives Serbia an ultimatum: hand over the assassin

• When Serbia refuses war is declared!

• A chain reaction results

IV. The Allies 1914 ��� • Serbia

• England (Great Britain) • Russia • France •  The U.S. does’t join until 1917(Neutrality)

V. Central Powers

• Bulgaria • Austria-Hungary • Germany • Ottoman Empire

VI. Propaganda

• Ideas or information used to influence opinion.

• Propaganda was used to

influence men to fight.

• to buy war bonds. • to conserve.

• All the major powers will use propaganda to influence people.

• Posters • Music • Books • Movies

GERMANY

Great Britain

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

French women seeing the boys off on their great “adventure”

British recruits packing the streets of London

Germans packing into a transport railroad car

Flags of France and Britain flying high, TOGETHER at last

The German Kaiser reading his war declaration

German students excited about enlisting

“We’re off on a great adventure”

Smiling French Troops

WHY?

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, ���Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary

The Tommies Were Ready!!

So were the Elite Wermacht Troopers!

But the French??? C’mon

Trench Warfare

1914 Ethnolinguistic Map of Europe