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Hello Guest! Can I help you?
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1 Museum 2 Restrooms
3 Giftshop 4 Cafeteria
Doornumbers
I hope you‘ll find the right
way now!
Yes! I know where to go!
No! I just want to get out of
here!
Cafeteria
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Soldier‘s food during WW1 usually was in cans
A page of an old WW1- Cookbook
TWO - Restrooms
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Welcome to our
MUSEUM
Trench Warfare
U.S. in WW1
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causes
Who was involved?
John J. Pershing
WHY did the U.S. enter the
war?
General John Joseph Pershing
(1860 – 1948)
He led the United State‘s Army in Europe during WW1
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Welcome to our
MUSEUM
Trench Warfare
U.S. in WW1
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causes
Who was involved?
John J. Pershing
WHY did the U.S. enter the
war?
Klick here!
Welcome to our
MUSEUM
Trench Warfare
U.S. in WW1
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causes
Who was involved?
Klick here!
John J. Pershing
WHY did the U.S. enter the
war?
layout of a trench
Trench Warfare
layout of a trench - zig-zag line of trench- how they have been supported with wood- communication trenches- sandbags - barbed wire
ProblemsBack Tip
Fighting soldiers
mapsmell
There are lots of Trench-
Warfare-Games in the Internet!
http://armorgames.com/play/2267/warfare-1917
Try that:
But do that later, go through the museum first!
BackBe nice and go
Be bad: Go and
play!
Trench Warfare was a strategy with lots of problems like that:
Trench Warfare Museum
At night…
…supplies were brought…scouts were sent out
Barbwire MudRats
Maggots
smell
Body rotcold
iceMachine gun fire
disease
Staying dry
Need a bathroom? – come HERE !
Do not touch!
Central Power
(Triple Alliance)
Allies
Neutral nations
Map of Europe 1914
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- Germany- Austria-Hungary
- Ottoman Empire
- France - Russia - U.S.
- Great Britain
Germany
Ottoman EmpireAustria-Hungary
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Map: How countries look today
It’s more an area today, not a country!
Russia
France
Great Britain
Back More flags
U.S.
Map:
How countries look today
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Nationalism
I tell you the fourth
cause!
Imperialism Militarism
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You want more details? Klick
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ImperialismImperialism
European nations
were competing
for colonies.
„BIGGER is BETTER“
Cartoon of Great BritainBack
NationalismNationalism
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Pan-Germans:
Wanted to unite all German speaking people
Pan-Slavic:
Wanted to unite all Slavic speaking
people
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Conflict!
Militarism
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The nations built up their military.
For two reasons:
1. Protect colonies
2. Peer Pressure
More MilitarismRussia:
Largest army
Germany:
Best trained army
Britain:
Largest navy
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They used a mandatory draft to accomplish this
ALLIANCES!ALLIANCES!look who was
involved!
Alliances – Definition:An agreement made between countries to give each other help if it is needed.
When an alliance is signed, those countries become known as Allies.
A number of alliances had been signed by countries between the years 1879 and
1914. These were important because they meant that some countries had no option but to declare war if one of their
allies declared war first!
1879The Dual Alliance
Germany and Austria-Hungary
made an alliance to protect themselves
from Russia
1881Austro-Serbian Alliance
Austria-
Hungary made an alliance with Serbia to stop Russia gaining
control of Serbia
1882The Triple Alliance
Germany and
Austria- Hungary made an alliance with Italy to stop Italy from
taking sides with Russia
1914Triple Entente (no separate peace)
Britain, Russia and France agreed not to sign for peace
separately.
1894Franco-Russian
Alliance
Russia formed an alliance with France
to protect herself against Germany and
Austria-Hungary
1907Triple Entente
This was made between Russia,
France and Britain to counter the
increasing threat from Germany.
1907Anglo-Russian
Entente
This was an agreement
between Britain and Russia
1904Entente Cordiale
This was an
agreement, but not a formal alliance,
between France and Britain.
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4th and important cause:
U.S. in WW1
BackThe Ending
Click to see the
The U.S. …
… entered the war 1917
… had one million troops in war July 1918
… was led by General Pershing
The 11 hour the 11ths day of the 11th month in 1918 the war ends!
Lobby
By 1917 Russia has
a revolution and drops out of the
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Germany
…controlled Belgium, Italy and N. France
… concentrated on the Western Front now
Rail line in
Wiesbaden
(Germany)
- The U.S. cut off the rail lines which supply their troops, we attack trough the Argonne Forest and lost lots of soldiers and time
- By October 1918 German lines are crumbling
- In November the Allies have captured the high ground and Germany surrenders!
Treaty of Verseilles
New nations
The Treaty of versailles was the peace settlement signed after WW1
Here you see two pictures of the people who deliberated
nations were created
… and everything ended with the start of World War 2 !
Russia:
Finland, Latvia, Lithudnid, Estonid, Poland
Austria-Hungry:
Austria, Hungry, Czechaslovaky, Yugoslavia
Ottoman Empire:
Devided to be controlled by allies
Germany‘s punishment-Germany must allert full responsibillity
- reduced Germany‘s armed forced
- took away their colonies
- should pay $33 billion
- payed $ 4.5 billion
So looked the German Flag during WW1
Why entered?
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Lusitania
Note
Why entered?
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Lusitania
Note
The sinking of the Lusitania
The Lusitania was a passenger ship that was secretly carrying ammunitions.
A German Submarine sunk it without warning after they promised to warn before shoots.
1.198 passengers died!
(128 Americans)
Unrestricted Submarine WarfareSussex pledge:
Germany promised not to sink merchant ships without first warning and rescue passengers
Picture of the U20 which sunk the Lusitania
To do this
they used
unrestricted SubmarineWarfare!
1917 Germany is defending Russia on the East front because they want a quick victory on the Western front.
Zimmermann Note
Arthur Zimmermann
(1864 – 1940)
German official
- Sent letter to Mexico asking them to attack the U.S.
- In exchange he promised that Germany would aid them in retrieving some of the land that we took from them
- this letter was intercepted and printed in every major U.S. newspaper