WORLD WAR ONE

1914-1918

Causes

• Nationalism as a solution to the great depression

• Absence of international institutions

• Ethnic minorities in old empires

• Rivalry among colonial powers

Some outcomes

• The end of old empires in Europe (Austria-Hungarian, Russian, Ottoman)

• The rise of the Bolsheviks and Communism in Russia

• Armenian genocide • The map of the modern Middle East• The rise of Fascism in Italy and Germany• The shift of global center to US• Japanese expansionism in Asia

New Zealand soldiers 1918Ottoman soldiers 1915

Australian Soldiers, Egypt, 1915

Trenches, Western Europe

Trenches

French dead German dead

Russian Mass gravePeronne (Somme) France, 1916

Champagne

Flanders