1. WORLD WAR I
Why we have November 11th off from school

2. Alliance System

3. Royal Cousins

4. Naval Competition

5. Imperialism

6. Balkan Conflict
Serbia wanted to control
Bosnia, but had to fight
Austria to get it
Russia backed up Serbia
Germans backed up
Austria
France backed up Russia

7. Sarajevo

8. Britain enters for Belgium
Schlieffen Plan
Germany wanted a
quick exit for France
so it could then
focus on Russia
Called for invasion
of Belgium
Britain defended
Belgium

9. Trench Warfare

10. Barbed wire, land mines

12. Tanks

13. Chemical Warfare

14. Victims of a gas attack

15. U-Boats

16. Heavy Machine Gun

17. Air War

18. Russian Revolution

19. Lawrence of Arabia
T.E. Lawrence, British
officer who convinced
the Arab tribal leaders
to rebel against their
pro-German overlords
in exchange for
independence
Europeans then denied
them independence
after the war

20. Zimmermann Telegram

21. Slightly more than 9 million dead on each side
US is less than 120,000