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PowerPoint® Presentations in World History
World War I
By Steve Schroeder
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The Great WarWorld War I
Causes, Events, Aftermath
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Map of Allied and Central Powers
ALLIED POWERSMajor Powers• British Empire
(1914–1918)• France (1914–1918)• Italy (1914–1918)• Russia
(1914–1917)• United States
(1917–1918)CENTRAL POWERS
Major Powers• Austria-Hungary
(1914–1918)• Germany (1914–1918)• Ottoman Empire/Turkey
(1914–1918)
United StatesUnited States
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United Kingdom
• Constitutionalmonarchy
• 1914: Enteredthe war todefendBelgium’sneutrality
• Had the least togain from a warin Europe
“The Rhodes Colossus”
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France
• A republic
• Many longedfor glory daysof NapoleonBonaparte’sempire
• Colonial power
• Soughtrevenge againstGermany
Napoleon III flanked by two of his ministers
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Russia
• TsarNicholas II
• Economybased onserfdom
• Struggle toindustrialize
Russian nobles use serfs in a card game, 1854
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Germany
• Otto vonBismarckunified theGerman states(1871)
• Kaiser WilhelmII
• No colonies• Leading
industrial powerby 1900
“Bismarck content as colonial powers scramble”
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Ottoman Empire
• 1908: Western-style constitution
• Surrenderedsovereignty forGerman help
• 1914: Germaninfluence inOttoman foreignpolicy
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Austria-Hungary
• HapsburgDynasty—anold and dyingkingdom
• Numerousethnicities
• Provided the“explosion”that led to theGreat War
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph
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Pre-War Europe
• Outdated socialpractices andmilitary tactics
• Alliances
• Industrialization
• Aristocracies
• Calls for socialreform
• Governmentresponses
Hadol’s cartoon map of Europe
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Balkan Powder Keg
• Nationalistfeelings dividecountry
• Multiplelanguages,religions, andcultures
• Each wanted itsown homeland
A battle in the first Balkan War
