The Great War

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The Great War
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Prelude the July Crisis of 1914
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I. August 1914 THE GREAT WAR BEGINS
Germanys Schlieffen Plan
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Opening Battles
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War Aims

• THE ALLIES

• THE CENTRAL POWERS

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The Experience of War
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The Experience of War

• VERDUN (1916)
• The SOMME (1916)
• WHAT WAS UNIQUE TO THE EXPERIENCE OF WORLD WAR I?

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II. The Home Front
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HOW DID THE WAR AFFECT PEOPLE WHO WERENT
SOLDIERS?
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Wartime Politics
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Tsar Nicholas II family
HOW DID THE WAR AFFECT POLITICAL LEADERS?
POLITICAL PARTIES? POLITICAL AGENDAS?
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Propaganda Censorship
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War Transforms Society
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World War I profoundly changed just about
everything

• The Economy
• Social Structure
• Core Human Values
• Political Parties Agenda
• THE SIZE AND ROLE OF THE STATE

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III. FROM WAR FEVER TO REVOLUTION

• The war provoked BIZARRE mob-like behavior
• First PRO-WAR hysteria (systematically
  encouraged by the State)

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Then growing anti-War Protest
RUSSIAN ANTI-WAR PROTESTORS OUTSIDE THE WINTER
PALACE, St. Petersburg, 1917
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THEN FAILED STATES

• The strange phenomenon of FAILED STATES
• Symptoms mobs in the streets all state-services
  fail economy crashes multiple bands of gunmen

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Classic Case of the Failed StateThe Russian
Revolution
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The Russian Civil War

• 1. Pro-War Parades
• 2. Savage Cost of War
• 3. Anti-War Protests
• 4. Govt v. Protesters
• 5. COLLAPSE OF STATE (The 1917 Revolution)
• CIVIL WAR (1917-21)
• COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP

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IV. THE GREAT WAR ENDS
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FAILED STATES The Struggle to End the War

• RUSSIAN EMPIRE collapsed
• OTTOMAN EMPIRE collapsed
• AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE collapsed
• GERMAN EMPIRE - collapsed

ANTI-GOVT MOB IN DOWNTOWN BERIN, 1918
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Making Peace in the Midst of Revolution

• THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE OF 1919

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Is Peace Possible?
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AND DID IT ALL MEAN ANYTHING? WAS IT WORTH IT
ALL, IN THE END?