WORLD WAR ONE

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WORLD WAR ONE

• 1914-1918

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Causes

• Nationalism as a solution to the great depression
• Absence of international institutions
• Ethnic minorities in old empires
• Rivalry among colonial powers

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Some outcomes

• The end of old empires in Europe
  (Austria-Hungarian, Russian, Ottoman)
• The rise of the Bolsheviks and Communism in
  Russia
• Armenian genocide
• The map of the modern Middle East
• The rise of Fascism in Italy and Germany
• The shift of global center to US
• Japanese expansionism in Asia

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Ottoman soldiers 1915
New Zealand soldiers 1918
Australian Soldiers, Egypt, 1915
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Trenches, Western Europe
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Trenches
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French dead
German dead
Peronne (Somme) France, 1916
Russian Mass grave
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Champagne
Flanders
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