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
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
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
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
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
