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Causes Of

WW1

Militarism

Building Up the Military

• Reasons1. To protect the colonies

2. Peer Pressure

• To build up the Military they used a mandatory draft

– Russia = the largest army

– Germany = the best trained army

– Britian = the largest navy

Nationalism

Pride in your country

• Pan-German– Unite all German speaking people

• Pan-Slavic– Unite all Slavic speaking people

– Example: Bosnia = 95% speak Slavic Language yet controlled by German speaking Austria

Imperialism(competing for Colonies)

• Europe nations competing for colonies

• “BIGGER IS BETTER”

• Areas of conflict • Africa

• Bosnia

• Alsace

• lorraine

Alliances

• Forming partnerships with other nations

• Central powers » Germany

» Austria

» Ottoman Empire

• Allies» Brittain

» France

» Russia

» United States

TrenchWarfare

Trench WarfareTo protect there positions and to cut down on losses. Both sides dug trenches

At night supplies were brought in and scouts were sent out

Problems that they had in the trenchesMud Rats Smell Bodys Rot staying dry maggots lice and diseases

Trench Warfare

At dawn/dusk attacks came: hit them with artillery and then went over the top of enemy trenches

They had to go through Barbwire, Machinegun fire and other problems

Why The U.S Entered WW1

Sinking of the Lusitania

• It was a passenger ship that was secretly carrying ammunitions

• A German submarine sunk the ship

• 1,198 passengers died ( 128 of them were Americans)

• President Wilson demanded Germans to apologize and pay for all damages.

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• Sussex Pledge (Germany promised not to sink merchant ships without warning them and rescuing all passengers)

• By 1917 Germany was defeating Russia

to do this they used submarine warfare

• They sunk all ships headed towards allied nations.

Zimmerman Note

• Zimmerman was a German official he sent out a letter to Mexico asking them to attack on the United States.

• In exchange the Germans would aid them to get there land back (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona ect.)

• This was intercepted by the U.S and was handled well between Mexico and the U.S

U.S inWW1

World War 1 Ends

• On The 11th Hour Of The 11th DayOf The 11th MonthIn 1918

The war finally ends

The U.S

• General Pershing led The U.S troops

• By july 1918 the U.S has 1 million troops in the war

• We cut off the German rail lines which supply their troops

• We attack through the Argonne Forest. It takes 47 days and 1.2 million soldiers but we cut off their supply

Germany in war

• By 1917 Germany controlled: Belgium Italy and N. France

• 1918 Russia has a revolution and they drop out of the war

• Now Germany can concentrate on the Western front

• But by October German lines are crumbling

• And just one month later the allies captured the high ground and Germany surrenders

Treaty ofVersalllies

New Nations Created

• Russia= Finland, Lavita, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland

• Austria/Hungary= Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia

• Ottoman Empire= Divide up controled by Allies

Germanys Punishment

• Germany must accept full responsibility

• Took away their colonies, coal fields and areas of Alsace and Lorraine

• Greatly reduced Germanys Armed Forces

• Forced them to pay 33 billion dollars to the allies

• They were only able to pay 4.5 billion

League of Nations

• An Organization of nations established at the end of WW1 to maintain a world stability

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