WW1 (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE GREAT WAR)

Cyle Hirschfeld

FAMOUS FIGURES

Franz Ferdinand The Archduke of Austria His assassination sparked WW1

FAMOUS FIGURES (CONT.)

Kaiser Wilhelm II Last German Emperor King of Prussia

FAMOUS FIGURES (CONT.)

Woodrow Wilson 28th President of the United States 14 Points League of Nations

FAMOUS FIGURES (CONT.)

David Lloyd George British Prime Minister (1916-1922) Helped initiate German conditions of

surrender

FAMOUS FIGURES (CONT.)

Raymond Poincaire French President during WW1 Outlined conditions of German surrender

KEY EVENTS DURING WW1

July 28 1914 Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia

Battle of the Marne ( September 5-9 1914)

1917 April: U.S enters November: Russia Exits

TRENCH WARFARE

TRENCH WARFARE (CONT.)

Trench warfare was brutal Very little ground was gained on either side

of the war

New inventions like the machine gun and mustard gas increased death tolls enormously

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NATIONS INVOLVED

Allies (Entente)- United Kingdom, France, Russia (U.S 1917) Belgium, Serbia, Greece, Italy, Japan,

Romania

NATIONS INVOLVED

Axis Powers Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman

Empire

U.S- THE ZIMMERMAN NOTE

Note from Germany to Mexico asking for U.S invasion Discovered by U.S Prompted U.S entry into WW1

THE ZIMMERMAN NOTE

THE WAR BY NUMBERS

16,543,185 total dead 21,000,000 wounded U.S

117,000 deaths 210,000 wounded

THE WAR BY NUMBERS

Germany 2,476,000 dead, 4,247,000 wounded United Kingdom

- 885,000 dead, 1,663,000 wounded France

- 1,397,000 dead, 4,266,000 wounded

AFTERMATH

11-11-18 at 11:00 A.M German surrender unconditionally Germans figure to have equal terms

This does not happen for the Germans

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

28th of June 1919 Six months after Armistice Allied Nations (France and U.K)

Demand German reparations Germany in debt, finally fully paid off in

2010

REICHSTAG BUILDING (TREATY OF VERSAILLES)

AFTERMATH (CONT.)

Flu epidemic (Spanish Influenza) kills 21,000,000 more from 1919-1921

Nations Dissolved Ottoman Empire Austria-Hungary

SOURCES

Aftermathww1.com Ww1gallery.com/people Ww1.net