A powerpoint that highlights several aspects of World War I

1. 1914-1918: The World at War

4. The “Spark”

5. Pan-Slavism: The Balkans, 1914 The “Powder Keg” of Europe

6. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

7. The Assassination: Sarajevo

8. Causes of the War

9. 1. The Alliance System Triple Entente : Triple Alliance :

10. Two Armed Camps! Allied Powers : Central Powers :

11. Europe in 1914

12. 2. Militarism & Arms Race Germany’s Yearning to Dominate Europe Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br., Rus.] in millions of £s. 398 289 268 154 130 94 1914 1910 1900 1890 1880 1870 1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures 73% Germany 39% Russia 13% Britain 10% France

13. 3.Economic & Imperial Rivalries

14. Aggressive Nationalism

15. The War Begins

16. The Schlieffen Plan

17. Recruitment Posters

18. Recruits of the Central Powers Austro-Hungarians A German Soldier Says Farewell to His Mother

19. New French Recruits

20. A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier

22. The Western Front: A “War of Attrition ”

23. A Multi-Front War

24. The Western Front

25. Trench Warfare

26. Trench Warfare “ No Man’s Land”

27. War Is HELL !!

28. Sacrifices in War

29. Posters: Wartime Propaganda

30. Australian Poster

31. American Poster

32. Financing the War

33. German Poster

34. America Joins the Allies

35. The Sinking of the Lusitania

36. The Yanks Are Coming!

37. 9,000,000 Dead

38. The Somme American Cemetary, France 116,516 Americans Died

39. World War I Casualties

40. Turkish Genocide Against Armenians A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!

41. Turkish Genocide Against Armenians Turkish Genocide of Armenians (1914 - 1922) 387,800 2,133,190 Total 15,000 73,390 Trapizond District 163,000 194,000 European Turkey 70,000 309,000 Cilicia and Northern Syria 27,000 371,800 Western Anatolia Other Armenian-populated Sites in Turkey 16,800 225,000 Sivas 56,000 220,000 Bitlis 3,000 124,000 Diarbekir 35,000 204,000 Kharbert 500 197,000 Van 1,500 215,000 Erzerum 1922 1914 Districts & Vilayets of Western Armenia in Turkey

42. Women and the War Effort

43. Financing the War

44. For Recruitment

45. Munitions Workers

46. French Women Factory Workers

47. German Women Factory Workers

48. Working in the Fields

49. A Woman Ambulance Driver

50. Red Cross Nurses

51. Women in the Army Auxiliary

52. Russian Women Soldiers

53. The War of the Industrial Revolution: New Technology

54. French Renault Tank

55. British Tank at Ypres

56. U-Boats

57. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

58. The Airplane “ Squadron Over the Brenta” Max Edler von Poosch, 1917

59. Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers

60. Poison Gas Machine Gun

61. 1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies 50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died

62. 11 a.m., November 11, 1918