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1. NVC

2. Turning Points of WWI

Essential Question: How did WWI finally come to an end?Homework: RESEARCH PROJECT DUE BLOCK DAY

A Bloody Stalemate

• Western Front– Campaign in France/Belgium – Result of failure of Schlieffen

Plan

• “A living Hell”– No side ever advanced more

than 6 miles– Battle of Verdun: lasts 10

months– Battle of Ypres: 6,000

French killed by poison gas in only 10 minutes

Russia Struggles• Eastern Front

– Russia/Middle East

• Russia struggling– Not yet industrialized– Short on food, weapons,

uniforms– GIANT ARMY

• Battle of Gallipoli– Allies need to defeat Ottoman

Empire to keep Russia in the war– Open up access to Russia

through the Black Sea– Plan Fails

The Final Push• March 1917 Shortages on

food and fuel due to war lead to REVOLUTION in Russia– Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Russia

makes peace with Germany and withdraws from WWI

• Spring Offensive – Germany redirects all troops to

Western Front– Massive attack on France– Germans on the verge of

victory

• April 1917 U.S. enters war– 2 million fresh troops

U.S. Entry into WWI• 1914-1917 U.S. is Isolationist

under President Woodrow Wilson– Isolationism: no political alliances

or involvement in other countries

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare– Germans sinking American ships in

the Atlantic Ocean

• Zimmerman Telegram– a German attempt to ally with

Mexico against the United States

• Social/Economic ties with Britain– Shared Anglo-Saxon culture and

strong economic ties

War’s End• Second Battle of the Marne

(1918): British, French, and Americans stop German Spring Offensive– "I never saw men charge to

their death with finer spirit.“

• Hundred Days Offensive: Britain, France, and America counterattack the Germans– Germany surrenders within

one hundred days