1. 1914 – 1918

2. The Great War, or World
War I, was the first of its
kind. It was the war to
end all wars, involving all
the great world powers.
World War I was the
result of leaders’
aggression towards other
countries which was
supported by the rising
nationalism of the
European nations.

3.  International Disquiet
 Imperialism
 Nationalism
 Militarism Arms Race
 Alliances’
 Economic Competition
 No International Peace
Organization

5.  June 28, 1914 Archduke
Francis Ferdinand, heir
to the Austria-Hungarian
throne, was assassinated
in Sarajevo. The
assassination sparked
Europe into a frenzy and
began a chain reaction
that started the war.
Germany declares war in
August 1914.

6.  The British ocean liner RMS
Lusitania, famous for its luxurious
accommodations and speed
capability, primarily ferried people
and goods across the Atlantic Ocean
between the United States and Great
Britain.
 Since the outbreak of World War
I, ocean voyage had become
dangerous.
 On May 7, 1915 a German U-boat
launched a torpedo and sank the
Lusitania within 15 min.
 Of the 1,959 people on board, 1,198
died. The toll of civilians killed in
this disaster shocked the world.
 128 of the dead were Americans.

7.  Trench warfare is a form
of land warfare using
occupied fighting lines
consisting largely of
trenches, in which troops
are significantly
protected from the
enemy's small arms fire
and are substantially
sheltered from artillery.

8.  Poison Gas
 Gas Masks
 Machine Guns
 Tanks
 Submarine
 German Zeppelins
 Military Plan
 Radio

9. AT dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun
In the wild purple of the glow'ring sun,
Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke
that shroud
The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,
Tanks creep and topple forward to the wire.
The barrage roars and lifts. Then, clumsily
bowed
With bombs and guns and shovels and battle-
gear,
Men jostle and climb to meet the bristling fire.
Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with
fear,
They leave their trenches, going over the top,
While time ticks blank and busy on their
wrists,
And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling
fists,
Flounders in mud. O Jesus, make it stop!
-Siegfried Sassoon
At Creiglockhart, July – November, 1917

10.  the German Army opened the
Western Front by first invading
Luxembourg and Belgium, then
gaining military control of
important industrial regions in
France. The tide of the advance
was dramatically turned with the
Battle of the Marne. Following
the race to the sea, both sides
dug in along a meandering line
of fortified trenches, stretching
from the North Sea to the Swiss
frontier with France. This line
remained essentially unchanged
for most of the war.

11.  “To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our
fortunes, everything that we are and everything that
we have, with the pride of those who know that the
day has come when America is privileged to spend her
blood and her might for the principles that gave her
birth and happiness and the peace which she has
treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.”
- Woodrow Wilson
 Source: Source Records of the Great War,
Vol. V, ed. Charles F. Horne,
National Alumni 1923

14.  Propaganda was used to
spark emotion into the
American People.
Sometimes it would be
fear, hope, or patriotism.
Emotional appeals and
simplistic caricatures of the
enemy influenced many
Americans. No matter
what, propaganda posters
made an impact on the
choices Americans made
during the war.

16.  Women played a significant
part in the war. Some worked
as nurses to aid wounded
solders. Some worked in
factories and farms to take
the place of men. Some
volunteered for different
causes and
organizations', such as
driving for the Motor Corps;
and some even dresses as men
to fight for their country.
Some women supported the
home front by preserving
food, and growing gardens.

19.  The final Allied push towards the
German border began on October
17, 1918.
 Alliance between the Central Powers
began to collapse.
 A German Republic was declared and
peace feelers extended to the Allies.
 At 5 AM on the morning of November 11
an armistice was signed in a railroad car
parked in a French forest near the front
lines.
 The terms of the agreement called for the
cessation of fighting along the entire
Western Front to begin at precisely 11 AM
that morning.
 After over four years of bloody
conflict, the Great War was at an end.