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DEEP DEVOTION TO ONE’S COUNTRY
NATIONALISM
THE QUEST FOR COLONIES
IMPERIALISM
GLORIFYING THE MILITARY, ALWAYS READY FOR WAR, ARMS RACE
MILITARISM
TRIPLE ALLIANCE, TRIPLE ENTENTE, THE PURPOSE
ALLIANCE SYSTEM
ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND
BY SERBIAN “BLACK HAND” MEMBER GAVRILO PRINCIP
KAISER WILHELM
GERMAN MONARCH
CSAR NICHOLAS II
RUSSIAN MONARCH
FRANZ JOSEF
AUSTRIAN MONARCH
WOODROW WILSON
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
PRIME MINISTER OF GREAT BRITAIN ( U.K.)
GEORGE CLEMANCEAU
PRIME MINISTER OF FRANCE
1914-1918
WWI DATES
GET THE MILITARY READY FOR WAR
MOBILIZATION
NEUTRALITY IS THE POLICY/ ISOLATIONISM
USA
GREAT BRITAIN DECLARES WAR
PROTECT BELGIUM
ALLIES
Tripple Entente
MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON OF WW1
MACHINE GUNS
USED MOSTLY FOR RECONNAISSANCE, SOME DOGFIGHTS, LIMITED BOMBING
AIRPLANES
CHLORINE AND MUSTARD GAS USED BY BOTH SIDES
POISON GAS
USED EFFECTIVELY BY BOTH SIDES
SUBMARINES
BECOME A FACTOR IN LATE 1917 AND 1918 FOR ALLIES
TANKS
GREAT BRITAIN & GERMANY
NAVAL RIVALRY
GERMAN PLAN TO WIN WW1 QUICKLY.
SCHLIEFFEN PLAN
A DRAW. NO SIDE IS WINNING
STALEMATE
LIVING CONDITIONS, FIGHTING CONDITIONS
TRENCH WARFARE
LAND BETWEEN THE “TRENCHES”
NO MAN’S LAND
TERRITORY FOUGHT OVER BY GERMANS AND FRENCH
ALSACE LORRAINE
RUSSIA LEAVES WW1 TO FIGHT CIVIL WAR/LOST TERRITORY TO GERMANY
TREATY OF BREST-LITOVSK
UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE/ LUSITANIA SUNK
ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM/ PROPOSE MEXICO JOIN THE WAR VS. U.S.A.
ARMISTICE/11-11-18 @ 11 AM/CEASEFIRE
14 POINTS –PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY/ PRESIDENT WILSON’S PLAN FOR EVERLASTING WORLD PEACE.
SELF DETERMINATION FOR COLONIES/ GOVERN THEMSELVES
ARMS REDUCTIONS/ SHRINK MILITARIES
FREE TRADE / NO TARIFFS
USA ENTERS WWI
DEBATE PROBLEMS TO AVOID WAR
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
SETS UP THE WORLD FOR ANOTHER WAR. OFFICIALLY ENDS WWI. PUNISHES GERMANY. MUST PAY ALLIES REPARATIONS
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
GERMANY GETS THE BLAME AND THE BILL/ LEADS TO THE RISE OF ADOLF HITLER AND WW2
WAR GUILT CLAUSE
Central Powers
Triple Alliance
