The Great War1914-1918

The War to End All Wars

The Red Baron

British Tank at YpresBritish Tank at Ypres

French Renault TankFrench Renault Tank

The AirplaneThe Airplane

“Squadron Over the Brenta”Max Edler von Poosch, 1917“Squadron Over the Brenta”Max Edler von Poosch, 1917

The Flying Aces of World War IThe Flying Aces of World War I

Eddie Rickenbacher, US

FrancescoBarraco, It.

Rene PaukFonck, Fr.

Manfred vonRichtoffen, Ger.

[The “Red Baron”]Willy Coppens de

Holthust, Belg.

Eddie “Mick”Mannoch, Br.

Looking for the “Red Baron?”Looking for the “Red Baron?”

The ZeppelinThe Zeppelin

FlameThrowers

FlameThrowers

GrenadeLaunchersGrenade

Launchers

Poison GasPoison Gas

Machine GunMachine Gun

The Commanders France- Joffre, Petain, Foch Britain-Haig Germany- Hindenberg and

Ludendorff

Hindenburg and Ludendorff

Joffre and Petain

Foch and Haig

The“Colonial”

Fronts

The“Colonial”

Fronts

Sikh British Soldiers in IndiaSikh British Soldiers in India

Fighting in AfricaFighting in Africa

British Sikh Mountain Gunners

British Sikh Mountain Gunners

Black Soldiers in the German Schutztruppen

[German E. Africa]

Black Soldiers in the German Schutztruppen

[German E. Africa]

Fighting in AfricaFighting in Africa

3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade

French colonial marine infantry fromCochin, China - 1916

French colonial marine infantry fromCochin, China - 1916

The Middle East

Lawrence of Arabia Gallipoli- 1915- Winston

Churchill

The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915

Lawrence of Arabia

The Atlantic U-boats Unrestricted Submarine warfare Lusitania Woodrow Wilson Sussex Pledge- 1915

U-BoatsU-Boats

The Lusitania

The Sinking of the Lusitania

The Sinking of the Lusitania

Woodrow Wilson

US Enters the War

1917 Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Zimmerman Note “Make the World Safe for

Democracy”April 2, 1917

The Zimmerman TelegramThe Zimmerman Telegram

US Declares War

The YanksAre Coming!The Yanks

Are Coming!

US state of affairs

Army?ConvoysPropaganda The DraftTotal War and Bonds

Allied Ships Sunk by U-BoatsAllied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

Convoy System

Posters:Wartime

Propaganda

Posters:Wartime

Propaganda

Womenand the

WarEffort

Womenand the

WarEffort

French Women Factory Workers French Women Factory Workers

German Women Factory Workers German Women Factory Workers

Working in the FieldsWorking in the Fields

A Woman Ambulance DriverA Woman Ambulance Driver

Russian Women SoldiersRussian Women Soldiers

SpiesSpies

”Mata Hari”

Real Name: Margareetha Geertruide Zelle

”Mata Hari”

Real Name: Margareetha Geertruide Zelle

The Home Front Speaking out against the war… Rationing and shortages

The Eastern Front

Russia drops Out Feb/March 1917 Oct/Nov 1917 Communist

Revolution Lenin Brest-Litovsk Treaty

Lenin and the Tsar

Russia WWIRussia WWI

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918:Delivering the Goods

Last Chance Conditions of the Allies Eric Ludendorff and Paul Von

Hindenburg 2nd Marne John J. “Blackjack” Pershing Ferdinand Foch

Pershing and Foch

End of the War Doughboys- Alvin York Muese-Arrgone Offensive Wilson’s 14 points November 11, 1918

11 a.m., November 11, 191811 a.m., November 11, 1918

The Armistice is Signed!

Alvin York

The Armistice

Lost Empires

Germany, Austria, Russia, Ottomans

Paris Peace Conference 1919

Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau, Orlando

What did each want? League of Nations

The Big Four

The Treaty of Versailles What did it state? The Guilt Clause

New Maps Poland, Czechoslovakia,

Yugoslavia, Turkey, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon

The Versailles TreatyThe Versailles Treaty

Versailles Settlement in Europe

German Territorial Losses: 1919-1921

US

Isolationism

Doomsday Flu

Spanish Flu

The Doomsday Flu

1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies

50,000,000 – 50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died100,000,000 died

50,000,000 – 50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died100,000,000 died

Results

Set up for the rise of HitlerSet up World War IIJapan, Germany, and Italy20 million killed

World War I CasualtiesWorld War I Casualties

01,000,0002,000,0003,000,0004,000,0005,000,0006,000,0007,000,0008,000,0009,000,000

10,000,000RussiaGermanyAustria-HungaryFranceGreat BritainItalyTurkeyUS

The Somme American Cemetery, France

The Somme American Cemetery, France

116,516 Americans Died116,516 Americans Died116,516 Americans Died116,516 Americans Died

Armenian Genocide 1915-1920

Turkish Genocide Against Armenians

Turkish Genocide Against Armenians

A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!