World War I “The War to End All Wars”

Four MAIN Causes of WWI

• Militarism• Alliances• Imperialism• Nationalism

Militarism• The Buildup of a

country’s military to keep up or stay one step ahead of other countries military

Alliances

• Two main alliances formed The Triple Entente and The Triple Alliance

The SidesTriple Entente

•France •Great Britain

•Russia

Triple Alliance

•Germany•Austria Hungary

•Italy

Imperialism

• Many Countries wanted to establish empires around the world

Nationalism• Having

extreme pride in your country. You want it to be the best country

The Spark (June 28, 1914)

• Archduke Ferdinand and wife assassinated by Gavrilo Princip

• Princip was a member of a terrorist organization called the “Black Hand”

• Austria Hungary blames Serbia

Alliances and War• Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia• Russia declares war on Austria Hungary• Germany declares war on Russia and

France• Great Britain declares war on Germany

Central Powers• Germany• Austria-Hungary• Ottoman Empire• Bulgaria

Allied Powers• Britain• France• Russia• Serbia• Belgium

• Japan• Italy• United States• Canada• Australia

Trench Warfare

Weaponsof

World War I

Wireless Communication

Machine Guns

Tanks

Hand Grenades

Armored Vehicles

Anti-Aircraft Guns

Parachutes

Balloons

Trucks and Cars

Aircraft

“Flaming Coffins”

Dog Fights

The Loser

German Ace “The Red BarronMandred von Richthofen

• “I hope he roasted all the way down”

Zepplins

Downed Zepplin

Zepplin Bombs

“Big Bertha”

Machine Gun

Gas Attack

American Gas Victims

Early Gas Masks

Body Gas Suit

Dog with gas mask “Satan”

Torpedoes

Submarines

German Sub

Animals in WWI

Dogs in Training

Carrying supplies

Messenger Dogs

Battleships

Flamethrowers

Trench Hardships

• Rats• Trench

Mouth• Dysentery

• Lice• Snipers• Tunneling• Stench of

Death

RATS!!• "The rats were huge. They were so big

they would eat a wounded man if he couldn't defend himself." These rats became very bold and would attempt to take food from the pockets of sleeping men. Two or three rats would always be found on a dead body. They usually went for the eyes first and then they burrowed their way right into the corpse.

Dysentery• The bacteria enters

the body through the mouth in food or water, and also by human feaces and contact with infected people

Snipers

Lice• They spent the better part of an hour

in killing lice and scratching themselves. We soon found out that this took the better part of an hour daily. Each day brought a new batch; as fast as you killed them, others took their place.

Pictures of Lice

Tunneling

Stench of Death

Boredom

Barbed Wire and Attacks

Mud

Poison Gas

DEATH

Waterlogged Trenches caused

Trench Foot

Using Propaganda

As A Weapon

What is Propaganda

•Ideas or rumors used to harm an opposing cause

•Home country- Pride and Liberty

•Opposing country- Beastly and Inhuman