5. The Major Players: 1914-17
Nicholas II
[Rus]
George V [Br]
Pres. Poincare [Fr]
Allied Powers:
Franz Josef [A-H]
Wilhelm II [Ger]
Victor Emmanuel
II [It]
Central Powers:
Enver Pasha
[Turkey]
7. 2. Militarism & Arms Race
1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1914
94 130 154 268 289 398
Total Defense Expenditures for the Great
Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br., Rus.]
in millions of £s.
1910-1914 Increase in
Defense Expenditures
France 10%
Britain 13%
Russia 39%
Germany 73%
51. TREATY OF
VERSAILLES/
PEACE
It was enforce to stop future
war
World War I officially ended
with the signing of the Treaty
of Versailles on June 28, 1919
It took place in the Hall of
Mirrors in the Palace of
Versailles, France.
It took force on 10 Jan 1920
58. World War I Casualties
0
1,000,000
2,000,000
3,000,000
4,000,000
5,000,000
6,000,000
7,000,000
8,000,000
9,000,000
10,000,000
Russia
Germany
Austria-Hungary
France
Great Britain
Italy
Turkey
US
Ww1 STARDED IN 1914 AND ENDED IN 1918 it was fought between
Allied : France , British , Russia , USA , Italy
Against the central powers : German and Austria Hungary.
THE 1ST RESON WSAS THE ALLINES SYSTEM BEFORE THE WAS THER WAS A TRIPLE ALLLINCE
Allied : Britain , France, Russia,
CENTRAL : GERMANY, ITILY, AUSTRIA HUNGERY
AFTER THE WAS THER WERE TWO GROUPS IE ALLIED AND THEE CENTRAL POWER
ITELY CHANGED TEAMS
TERKEY JOINS THE CENTRAL POWER
People in power during war
GERRN ARE THE CEN
Every one knew a big war was coming due to the increasing tension since 1880, so every one was increasing their military power, and buying new and more destructive wepons and were increasing their military power
ECONOMICS and imperialism WAs THE DRIVING FORCE OF THE war every one wanted dominance over the other
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means.
nationalism WAS NEW AND GROWING AMOUNG THE EUROPIAN NATIONS IE DIFFERNENT ETINIC GROUPS IN EUROPE WANTED INDEPENDENCE DUE TO NATIONALISM
THE LAST SPARK THAT CAUSED THE WAS THE
ASSASINATION OF Archduke Franz Ferdinand ON June 28, 1914 HE WAS THE
member of the imperial Habsburg dynasty, and from 1896 until his death the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY A SERBIAN MAN SO AUSTRIA HUNGERY BLAMED SERBIA
SO AUSTRIA HUNGERY BLAMED SERBIA AND DECLEARED WAR ON SERBIA GERMANE SAW THE OPERTUNITY AND DECLEARD WAR ON FRANCE AND RUSSIA
FRANCE HAD STRONG DEFENCE ON GERMAN BORDER SO Germany TRIED TO ENTER France through an neutral nation BELGIAM , this MADE BRITAN angry and so they DECLARE WAR ON GERMANEY FOR INVADING A NEUTRAL NATON
RECRUTMENT STARTED AND YOUNG MEN AND BOYS WERE RECRUTED FOT THE WAR
MOST OF THE YOUNG MEN WERE RECRUTED IN THE ARMY
Young men were mandatory to go to war on both sides
Youngest solider was 12 years old
80 % of French and German male population between the age of 18 to 40 were sent to war
Women played an important part in the war a lot of new strategies to get the whole population to the best use
Women were use to finance the war
1ST TIME WOMEN WERE TAKEN IN THE ARMY IE NAVY
WOMEN WORKED IN MAKING WEPONS
IT WAS A MOVEMENT TO MAKE USE OF THE WHOLE POPULATION FOR THE WAR
Women on both sides were recruited for work
Women were also encouraged to work out side due to lesser man power on the country grounds
AFTER THE INVATION OF BELGIUM …England and Russia also joined fight
The most deadly war was fought on the western front but due to high resistance from France and troops from England the movement was slow and it turned into a trench war
It is a slow warfare and not a lot of area was won only a few km a months , there was a constant firing and bombing and atterly fire .
Verdun is a small city in northeast France, one of the biggest and deadliest betel was fought here, The Battle of Verdun, fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916, was the largest and longest battle of the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies.
French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000. Some 300,000 were killed
The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive,. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on the, River Somme in France. It was an offensive from the allied and.. slide
Due to the use of deadly weapons and chemical FOR THE FIRST time A LOT of people were affected ,killed or badly injured
Along with the deaths there were imageries loss of limbs and phycological problems
Gallipoli is located in the European part of Turkey,
of Gallipoli, was an unsuccessful attempt by the Allied Powers to control the sea route from Europe to Russia during World War I
There was also war in the colonies of germaney and britan and local people were hired to fight
In British controlled Indian, Sikhs and local people were recruited in the army and were send to the war fronts in other parts of world
Germany had colonies in Africa and British and French forces attacked those as well to achieve control
Lusitania was a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. The ship was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat.
Germany was stopping the food and supplies rotes in sea to starve the British in doing so they destroyed many ships including a ship carrying 128 Americans. Which sparked a wave of anger in American people and government.
And so the American government declared war on the central power i.e. Germany
American troops were send to the western front to fight side by side to the British and French. This was the end of war for Germany
All the allied powers attacked with all of their strength and Germany started to lose
Then on 11 November 1998, at 11 am Germany and the central power surrender
What this war gave us
The 1918 influenza pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.
In the United States, it was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918.
It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus.
10 million soldier and 7 million civilian died
The greatest number of casualties and wounds were inflicted by artillery, followed by small arms, and then by poison gas.
Sir Winston Churchill once described the battles of the Somme and Verdun, which were typical of trench warfare in their futile and indiscriminate slaughter
1st time tanks were used
1ST TIME FIGHTER AIRPLANE FLEET WAS CREATED AND THE 1ST AIRCRAFT CARRIER WAS BUILT Due to war
1st time flame thrower and grenade launchers were use
Chemical warfare was introduced in this war b Germany and machine guns were extensively used