World War I Virtual Museum

1. See the
causes of the
Great War

2. Trench Warfare

3. Militarism
Militarism is the building
up of a nations military,
some of the reasons why
this was done was because
they wanted to protect
there colonies and because
countries around them
where building theirs

4. Nationalism
Nationalism is having
pride in your country, an
example of this was
Bosnia was controlled by
Austria but a majority of
the country still
considered them selves to
be Serbians

5. Imperialism
Imperialism is countries
competing for colonies
around the world, mainly
European nations were
doing it at this time, some
examples of imperialism is
Africa, Bosnia, Alsace, And
Lorraine

6. Alliances
Alliances is the forming
of partnerships with other
nations, the main alliances
in the great war were the
central powers- Germany
Austria and the Ottoman
empire, and the Allies-
Britain, France, and
Russia, Later the U.S. will
become involved

7. Why the U.S. entered
the war

8. Both sides involved in
world war one dug
trenches to cut down
on losses and to protect
there positions

9. There were many
problems with trench
warfare including
mud, rats, smell, body
rot (trench foot), cold,
maggots, lice, and
other diseases

10. At dawn and dusk attacks
came. They would lunch
artillery and then go over
the top into no mans land.
If you went over the top
you would face barbed
wire machinegun fire and
craters from the artillery

11. U.S. in WWI

12. Unrestricted submarine
warfare was one of the
reasons that the united
states entered the war.
Germany was attacking
all ships heading for the
allied nations

13. The sinking of the
Lusitania was another
reason why the united
states entered the war
because it killed 1198
passengers, 128 of them
were American citizens

14. Zimmermann’s note was a
note sent to Mexico but it
was intercepted by the
United States. It was
telling Mexico to attack
the U.S. and they will
support them and help
take back some of the
land that the U.S. took
from them

15. Treaty Of Versailles

16. The war was ended on
the 11th hour of the 11th
day of the 11th month in
1918. which is now
veterans day

17. By the end of 1917
before the U.S entered
the war Germany
controlled a large
portion of Europe
including Italy, Northern
France and Belgium

18. General Pershing led the
U.S. Troops in Europe, he
brought a new style of
fighting to the war. By
July of 1918 the U.S. had
over 1 million troops in
Europe

19. In 1918 Russia has a
revolution and drops out
of the war, which would
mean that Germany has
to only fight a one front
war and can focus all of
there men to the west

20. To cut off the Germany
supply line we attacked
through the Argonne
forest. It would take 47
days and 1.2 million
troops but we did end
up cutting off the
German supplies

21. EXIT

22. One of the things
that the Treaty of
Versailles did was
make the League Of
Nations to maintain
peace and stability
throughout the world

23. The Treaty of Versailles
Punished Germany.
They had to take full
responsibility for the
war. They also had to
pay 33 Billion dollars,
even though they didn’t
start the war.

24. It also made new
countries of the main
countries in the central
powers. It made
counties like Poland,
Finland, Czech., and slip
Austria and hungry into
different countries.