European powers formed rival alliances to protect themselves
PROBLEM ? One event could drag all countries involved into a conflict.
The Black Hand..
The main objective of the Black Hand was the creation, by means of violence, of a Greater Serbia.
Its stated aim was: "To realize the national ideal, the unification of all Serbs. This organization prefers terrorist action to cultural activities; it will therefore remain secret."
The spark that lit the fuse.
The one event that started the Great War happened in the Balkans.
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Austria) was assassinated while visiting Serbia.
The Black Hand was responsible.
The Assassin and the Archduke Gavrilo Princip
Assassination
Kaiser Wilhelm II
You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees!!
Battle of Verdun
the longest and one of the bloodiest engagements of World War I. February 1916 December 1916
Two million men were engaged.
The intention of the Germans had been a battle of attrition in which they hoped to bleed the French army white.
In the end, they sustained almost as many casualties as the French; an estimated 328,000 to the French 348,000.
Map 31.1: Major U.S. Operations in France, 1918
Figure 31.1: Approximate Comparative Losses in World War I
What was the job of George Creel during the war?
His job was to sell America the war.
Creel tried to whip up support for Wilsons ideas
Help US raise money to fight
Election of 1916 Wilson Hughes He kept us out of war!!!!
A very close election..
Russian Revolution of 1917
Jeannette Rankin
1 st women elected to Congress in United States history.
Republican from Wyoming.
Only person in Congress to vote against going to war in WW I (and II).
Communism Workers of the World UNITE!!
Harlem Hell fighters
An African American unit attached to the French Army that fought bravely in many battles.
