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The Great War The World in Upheaval (30)
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• How was the world transformed by the encounter in
  Sarajevo, June 28, 1914?

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The Great War

• Learning Outcomes
• Be able to think about the historical
  circumstances that precipitated the Great War
• Be able to explain how the Great War altered the
  political landscape and discredited established
  cultural traditions
• Comprehend the shift in power away from Western
  Europe in the aftermath of the Great War
• Appreciate the emergence of nationalist
  aspirations among colonized peoples in the
  aftermath of the Great War

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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• The Drift Toward War
• Nationalist Aspirations
• Self-Determination
• Balkan Nationalism
• Ottoman power
• nationalist revolts
• Austria-Hungary
• Slavic peoples

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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Austro-Hungarian Empire

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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• The Drift Toward War
• National Rivalries
• The Naval Race
• Colonial Disputes
• Germanys place in the sun
• The Balkan Wars
• Public Opinion

German Dreadnought
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• The Drift Toward War
• Understandings Alliances
• The Central Powers
• The Allies
• War Plans

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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• The Drift Toward War War Plans

German Schlieffen Plan, 1905
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Global War
• The Guns of August 23 July to 4 August
• Declarations of War

Ypres, 1919
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Global War

The Great War in Europe and southwest Asia,
1914-1918
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Global War
• Mutual Butchery
• The Western Front

The Great War in Europe the Trenches
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Mutual Butchery
• The Western Front The Somme, July Nov. 18
  20,000 men killed on the first day of the battle

The Somme
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Global War
• Mutual Butchery
• The Western Front
• Stalemate New Weapons
• No-Mans-Land

Zeppelin
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Mutual Butchery
• The Eastern Front
• Bloodletting
• New Rules of Engagement

Russian Troops, 1916
1918, Russia withdraws
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Colonial Participation

Zulu Warriors entertaining British troops at the
front resuming uniforms later
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Sources From The Past
• Dulce Et Decorum Est

Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame all
blind Drunk with fatigue deaf even to the
hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly
behind... - The Poems of Wilfred Owen
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• What do you think were the consequences of
  Wilfred Owens poem Dulce et decorum est?

Wilfred Owen, 1893-1918
Siegfried Sasson, 1886-1967
Robert Graves, 1885-1995
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Global War
• Total War The Home Front
• The Home Front
• Women at War
• Propaganda

The Heroes of Belgium 1914, French propaganda
poster
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Total War Propaganda

English poster
French Poster
English poster
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Total War Propaganda

Russian Poster
German poster
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Total War Propaganda

French poster
German Poster
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Total War Propaganda

English Poster
German Poster
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Total War Propaganda

• French Poster

English Poster
Russian poster
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Global War Lusitania, 1915

An Indian gun crew in the Somme area, 1916
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Conflict in East Asia the Pacific
• Japans Entry into the War
• The Twenty-One Demands (to China)

An Indian gun crew in the Somme area, 1916
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Global War
• Battles in Africa and Southwest Asia
• Gallipoli
• The Ottoman Empire

ANZACS pinned down on beach
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• The End of the War
• Revolution in Russia
• The February Revolution
• The Struggle for Power

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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• The End of the War
• Revolution in Russia
• Vladimir Lenin
• The October Revolution
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• Sources From The Past What was V. I. Lenins
  vision?
• State and Revolution

Only in the Communist society, when the
resistance of the capitalists has been completely
crushed when there are no classes... only then
the state ceases to exist, and it becomes
possible to speak of freedom. - V.I.
Lenin, The State and Revolution
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• The End of War
• U.S. Intervention Collapse of the Central
  Powers
• Economic Considerations
• Submarine Warfare
• America Declares War, April 1917

General John Pershing
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• The End of War
• U.S. Intervention Collapse of the Central
  Powers
• Collapsing Fronts
• Irish Easter Rebellion
• German Naval Revolt at Kiel
• French soldiers mutiny

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• The End of War
• U.S. Intervention Collapse of the Central
  Powers
• Collapsing Fronts
• Armistice

Armistice, November 11, 1918 Railcar
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• Armistice Memorialized

Armistice, November 11, 1918 Railcar
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• The End of War
• The Paris Peace Conference
• The Paris Settlement Treaty of Versailles
• Wilsons Fourteen Points
• The Peace Treaties

Clemenceau Wilson
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• The End of War The Paris Peace Conference
• Mustafa Kemal / Atatürk
• The League of Nations
• Self-Determination

Territorial Changes in Europe after the Great War
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The Great War The World in Upheaval

• The End of War Challenges to European
  Preeminence
• The Mandate System
• Weakened Europe
• Revolutionary Ideas

Territorial Changes in southwest Asia after the
Great War
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The Great War The World in Upheaval Key Words
and Terms

• Self-determination
• dreadnoughts
• place in the sun
• Triple Alliance Triple Entente
• Schlieffen plan
• no-mans-land
• Verdun and the Somme
• Wilfred Owen
• home front
• Twenty-one Demands
• Gallipoli
• February Revolution

• October Revolution
• Bolsheviks
• Treaty of Brest Litovsk
• Treaty of Versailles
• Wilsons Fourteen Points
• League of Nations
• The Mandate system
• Winston Churchill
• Mustapha Kemal
• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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The Great War

• Learning Outcomes
• Be able to think about the historical
  circumstances that precipitated the Great War
• Be able to explain how the Great War altered the
  political landscape and discredited established
  cultural traditions
• Comprehend the shift in power away from Western
  Europe in the aftermath of the Great War
• Appreciate the emergence of nationalist
  aspirations among colonized peoples in the
  aftermath of the Great War

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The Great War The World in Upheaval Summary

• The assassination of archduke Francis Ferdinand
  plunged the World in to four years of global war.
• Belligerent societies organized for total war
  drawing on the resources of their overseas
  empires.
• The war stalemated until the United States entry
  in April 1917.
• The war mobilized 70 million men, nearly 9
  million Europeans killed, Globally 15 million
  died
• The toll heaviest on young men of the war
  generation German, France and Britain lost 1/3
  of men aged 19-22 in 1914.
• The wars most potent social political legacy
  was death its powerful cultural legacy was
  disillusionment.
• WW I exhausted the economic wealth global
  political primacy of the major European powers.
• WW I promoted nationalist aspirations among
  colonized people.