The Great War The War to End All Wars Fall of the Eagles WORLD WAR ONE

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The Great WarThe War to End All WarsFall of the
EaglesWORLD WAR ONE

• World History
• Mr. Scherrman

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Europe in 1914
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Causes of the War

• M-Militarism

Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers
Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br., Rus. in millions of
s.
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Krupps Big Bertha Gun
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The Airplane
Squadron Over the BrentaMax Edler von Poosch,
1917
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The Zeppelin
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Causes of the War

• A-Alliance System

Triple Entente
Triple Alliance
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Causes of the War

• I-Imperialism. Economic Rivalries

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Causes of the War

• N- Nationalism. Becomes aggressive!

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The SPARK

• Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

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The Assassin
GavriloPrincip
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The Schlieffen Plan
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A Multi-Front War
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The Western Front
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Trench Warfare
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Trench Warfare
No Mans Land
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Battle of Verdun

• Single longest battle of WW1. (Feb 21, 1916- Dec.
  16th 1916)
• The area around Verdun contained 20 major forts
  and 40 smaller ones that had historically
  protected France.
• Germans felt that if Verdun fell, France would
  fall as well.
• Germans hoped to Bleed the French White
• TOTAL CASUALTIES Approx. 1 MILLION!

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Battle of Verdun
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Battle of the Somme

• July 1, 1916 November 1916
• Casualties
• British Army had suffered 420,000 (60,000 on the
  first day alone.)
• The French lost 200,000.
• Germans nearly 500,000.

Seemed to epitomize the futility of trench
warfare. 
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Battle of the Somme
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War Is HELL !!
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Sacrifices in War
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All Quiet on the Western Front

• Erich Remarque
• Was published to great critical and commercial
  acclaim in 1929.
• It soon earned the wrath of the Nazi party for
  its anti-war and anti-nationalistic sentiments
  and was burned and banned.
• It has since sold over 50 million copies in
  dozens of languages, and is still considered by
  many the greatest anti-war novel of all time.

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French Graveyard at Verdun
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Art of World War I
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A Street in ArrasJohn Singer Sargent, 1918
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Oppy Wood John Nash, 1917
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Those Who Have Lost Their NamesAlbin
Eggar-Linz, 1914
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Gassed and WoundedEric Kennington, 1918
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Paths of GloryC. R. W. Nevinson, 1917
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