WORLD WAR ONE (1914-1917)

• THE GREAT WAR• THE WAR TO END ALL WARS

THE CENTRAL POWERS (THE BAD GUYS)

GERMANY, ITALY AND THE AUSTRIA-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE. ALSO THE

OTTOMAN EMPIRE (BIG MISTAKE!)

THE TRIPLE ENTENTE (THE GOOD GUYS)

FRANCE, ENGLAND AND RUSSIAAND SOON, AMERICA!

ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND GETS ASSASSINATED

TRENCH WARFARE

WORLD WAR ONE WAS ONE OF THE WORST WARS EVER!!!

CASUALTIES16 MILLION DEAD!!!!!!

20 MILLION WOUNDED!!!!!!!

IN 1916 ALONE:GERMANY LOSES 218,000 MEN

FRANCE LOSES 315,000ENGLAND 420,000 (60,000 IN ONE DAY)

GERMANY, ANOTHER 450,000AND THE FRENCH ANOTHER 200,000

AFTER WWI, WE MAKE GERMANY SIGN THE TREATY OF VERSAILLE, WHICH

REALLY PUNISHES GERMANY BECAUSE OF WWI.

BUT IT PUNISHES GERMANY TOO MUCH! IT MAKES THE GERMANS PAY $35,000,000,000.00 FOR THE WAR

FUN FACT: THE TREATY OF VERSAILLE MAKES GERMAN MONEY, THE DEUTSCHEMARK, 99.9% WORTHLESS.

OTHER CONSEQUENCES OF THE WARWE GET A BRAND NEW EUROPE (POLAND, YUGOSLAVIA, CZECHSOLAVAKIA)

1. WOMEN JOINED THE WORKFORCE

2. LEADERS TOOK OVER UNPRECDENTED CONTROL OVER THEIR ECONOMIES (LIKE HITLER WILL)

3. THIS WAS A TOTAL WAR, MEANING EVET ASPECT OF SOCIETY GOT INVOLVED.

OTHER CONSEQUENCES OF WWI:

1.THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (WHICH JOINED GERMANY) BECOMES TURKEY

2.WE GET NEW LANDS IN THE MIDDLE EAST CALLED IRAN, IRAQ AND PALESTINE (WHICH ISRAEL WILL TAKE OVER AFTER THE HOLOCAUST.

3.AMERICA BECOMES COUNTRY #1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!4.PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON CREATES THE

LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO MAKE SURE WORLD WARS NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN BUT………WE SEE HOW THAT WORKED OUT!

AFTER WWI, WE MAKE GERMANY SIGN THE TREATY OF VERSAILLE, WHICH REALLY PUNISHES

GERMANY BECAUSE OF WWI.

BUT IT PUNSIHES GERMANY TOO MUCH! IT MAKES THE GERMANS PAY $35,000,000,000.00 FOR THE WAR. IT ALSO TAKES 15% OF THEIR LAND AND TELLS THEM THEY CAN NEVER HAVE AN ARMY

AGAIN.

GERMANY WILL BECOME SO POOR THAT HITLER WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE OVER.

WE LEARN FROM THIS AND REALIZE WE CAN’T PUNISH COUNTRIES TOO MUCH AND WE CAN’T LEAVE THEM

POOR AFTER A WAR.THAT IS WHY WE REBUILD EUROPE AND JAPAN AFTER

WWII!!!!

CAUSES OF WWI

NATIONALISM: THE LOVE OF YOUR COUNTRY MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE’S

⁻ SO GERMANY HATES FRANCE⁻ RUSSIA HATES GERMANY⁻ ENGLAND HATES RUSSIA

⁻ AND AMERICA IS NEUTRAL. FOR NOW………

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND MILITARISM:

COUNTRIES NOW HAD AIRPLANES, MACHINE GUNS, FLAMETHROWERS AND EVEN POISON GAS. SO EVERY COUNTRY IS IN COMPETITION FOR THE BEST WEAPONS IN THE WORLD. - GERMANY THEN INVENTS THE SUBMARINE (U-

BOAT).

- ENGLAND HAS THE BEST NAVY IN THE WORLD 

GERMAN U-BOATS

IMPERIALISM: EVERY COUNTRY IN EUROPE IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER AFRICA

ALLIANCES: EVERY COUNTRY HAD AN ALLIANCE WITH OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES1.GERMANY FORMED AN ALLIANCE WITH

THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE2.FRANCE SIGNED AN ALLIANCE WITH

RUSSIA3.ENLGAND WAS FRIENDS WITH FRANCE4.AND GERMANY WAS FRIENDS WITH

ITALY5.AMERICA IS NEUTRAL. FOR NOW………

TIME-LINE

1. ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY GETS ASSASSINATED BY A SERBIAN NATIONALIST.

2. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY DECLARES WAR ON SERBIA

3. RUSSIA IS FRIENDS WITH SERBIA AND THEY DECLARE WAR ON AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

4. GERMANY DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA5. FRANCE DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY6. ENGLAND DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY

NOW, THE ARCHDUKE ASSASSINATION WASN’T REALLY THAT BOGA DEAL IN AND OF ITSELF. BUT WHEN THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN

EMPIRE INVADED SERBIA,RUSSIA GOT INLOVED