World War I Virtual Museum

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Causes
Of
WW1

3. Militarism
Building Up the Military
• Reasons
1. To protect the colonies
2. Peer Pressure
• To build up the Military they used a
mandatory draft
– Russia = the largest army
– Germany = the best trained army
– Britian = the largest navy

4. Nationalism
Pride in your country
• Pan-German
– Unite all German speaking people
• Pan-Slavic
– Unite all Slavic speaking people
– Example: Bosnia = 95% speak Slavic Language yet
controlled by German speaking Austria

5. Imperialism
(competing for Colonies)
• Europe nations competing for colonies
• “BIGGER IS BETTER”
• Areas of conflict
• Africa
• Bosnia
• Alsace
• lorraine

6. Alliances
• Forming partnerships with other nations
• Central powers
» Germany
» Austria
» Ottoman Empire
• Allies
» Brittain
» France
» Russia
» United States

7. Trench
Warfare

8. Trench Warfare
To protect there positions and to cut
down on losses. Both sides dug
trenches
At night supplies were brought in and
scouts were sent out
Problems that they had in the trenches
Mud Rats Smell Bodys Rot staying
dry maggots lice and diseases

9. Trench Warfare
 At dawn/dusk attacks came: hit
them with artillery and then went
over the top of enemy trenches
They had to go through
Barbwire, Machinegun fire and
other problems

10. Why The U.S
Entered
WW1

11. Sinking of
the Lusitania
• It was a passenger ship that was secretly
carrying ammunitions
• A German submarine sunk the ship
• 1,198 passengers died ( 128 of them were
Americans)
• President Wilson demanded Germans to
apologize and pay for all damages.

12. Unrestricted
Submarine Warfare
• Sussex Pledge (Germany promised not to sink
merchant ships without warning them and
rescuing all passengers)
• By 1917 Germany was defeating Russia
to do this they used submarine warfare
• They sunk all ships headed towards allied
nations.

13. Zimmerman Note
• Zimmerman was a German
official he sent out a letter
to Mexico asking them to
attack on the United States.
• In exchange the Germans
would aid them to get there
land back (Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona ect.)
• This was intercepted by the
U.S and was handled well
between Mexico and the U.S

14. U.S in
WW1

15. World War 1 Ends
• On The 11th Hour
Of The 11th Day
Of The 11th Month
In 1918
The war finally ends

16. The U.S
• General Pershing led The U.S troops
• By july 1918 the U.S has 1 million troops in the
war
• We cut off the German rail lines which supply
their troops
• We attack through the Argonne Forest. It takes
47 days and 1.2 million soldiers but we cut off
their supply

17. Germany in war
• By 1917 Germany controlled: Belgium Italy
and N. France
• 1918 Russia has a revolution and they drop
out of the war
• Now Germany can concentrate on the
Western front
• But by October German lines are crumbling
• And just one month later the allies captured
the high ground and Germany surrenders

18. Treaty of
Versalllies

19. New Nations Created
• Russia= Finland, Lavita, Lithuania, Estonia, and
Poland
• Austria/Hungary= Austria, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
• Ottoman Empire= Divide up controled by
Allies

20. Germanys Punishment
• Germany must accept full responsibility
• Took away their colonies, coal fields and areas
of Alsace and Lorraine
• Greatly reduced Germanys Armed Forces
• Forced them to pay 33 billion dollars to the
allies
• They were only able to pay 4.5 billion

21. League of Nations
• An Organization of nations established at the
end of WW1 to maintain a world stability

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