1. World War One

2. http://www.5min.com/Video/How-World-War-I-Began-307288245 http://www.5min.com/Video/How-World-War-I-Ended-316336777

3. When, Where and Who? 1914 – 1918 Mostly in Europe Two groups of countries in the War The Central Powers The Allies

4. The Allies The British Commonwealth France Belgium Russia Serbia Japan Later America Italy

5. The Central Powers At the beginning of the war Germany Austria – Hungary Later Turkey Bulgaria

6. After four very long years of fighting the Allies won, but it was very close at times

7. World War One was a “total war” All the men who could were called up to fight Many women worked in factories to replace the men and made guns and ammunition

8. Effects of the War 10 million men died in the fighting That’s 5509 men every day

10. Even the winners were almost bankrupt

11. The Austrian and Turkish Empires were broken up

13. What did the war change?

14. People saw Germany as bad and dangerous

15. The balance of power was changed

16. Most countries had spent all their money – they were almost bankrupt

17. But most of all people wanted peace – everyone was sick of war and death