The War to End All WarsThe Great War

WORLD WAR I

Alliance - a formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate

Allied Powers 1914 England, Russia, France 1915 Italy 1917 United States

Central Powers Germany Austria-Hungary

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What and why did the war start?Archduke Franz Ferdinand

June 28, 1914

The Assassin Gavrilo Princip

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Modern

Warfare

1914

•Tanks

•Airplanes

•Machine Guns

•Submarines

•Gas

Gas Warfare

•Chlorine

•Mustard

• 4 % of all casualties on both sides

Zimmerman telegram

April 6, 1917 war declared by US

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World War I endsNovember 11, 1918

Killed 7,900,000Wounded 21,770,196

Country Dead Wounded Africa 10,000 N/AAustralia 58,150 152,170 Austria-Hungary 922,000 3,600,000Belgium 44,000 450,000 Britain 658,700 2,032,150 Bulgaria 87,500 152,390 Canada 56,500 149,700 Caribbean 1,000 3,000 France 1,359,000 4,200,000 Germany 1,600,000 4,065,000 Greece 5,000 21,000 India 43,200 65,175 Italy 689,000 959,100Japan 300 907 Montenegro 3,000 10,000 New Zealand 16,130 40,750 Portugal 7,222 13,751 Romania 335,706 120,000 Russia 1,700,000 5,000,000 Serbia 45,000 133,148 South Africa 7,000 12,000 Turkey 250,000 400,000 USA 58,480 189,955

World War ITreaty of VersaillesJune 28, 1919

• Germany responsible for the war•Germany to pay Allied Powers for damages or reparations•Germany and Austria-Hungary gave up large sections of land•Germany promised to reduce military

Russian Revolution

Karl Marx – The Communist Manifesto

1848

Communism – Command

Economy

Class Conflicts

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Vladimir Lenin

1870-1924

Workers Revolt Begins

February, 1917

Russian Revolution

Tsar Nicholas II

Last Russian Tsar

August, 1917

Union of Soviet Socialist

Republics (USSR)

Joseph Stalin1878-1953