a ppt on world war one

1. The First World War
Truly a world war:
Fought frm the Shores of America to
Shores of Japan

2. Triple Alliance
• Dual Alliance by     
Germany and Austria-Hungary (1879)
• expanded to include Italy. (1882)
• support each other if attacked by
eitherFrance or Russia.
Triple Entente: : : Britain,France and Russia,

3. Assassination at Sarajevo
• Gen Oskar Potiorek (Gov. of Austrian provinces of Bosnia-
Herzegovina)>>>invites>>> Archduke Franz
Ferdinand, Inspector of the Austro-Hungarian Army & Wife
• Problem
• people living in Bosnia-Herzegovina     
unhappy with Austrian rule      favoured union
with Serbia
• Black Hand (Unity or Death) group
wanted Bosnia-Herzegovina to leave theAustro-
Hungarian Empire

4. Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijevic
• the chief of the Intelligence Department of the Serbian
General Staff      considered Franz Ferdinand a
serious threat to a union between Bosnia-
Herzegovina and Serbia.
• Earlier Ferdinand plans to grant concessions to the South Slavs
     independent Serbian state nw impossible 
    Dimitrijevic plan to murdr Ferdinand

5. THE PLAN
1 Muhamed Mehmedbasic 5 Gavrilo Princip (morning)
2 Nedjelko Cabrinovic 6 Gavrilo Princip (afternoon)
3 Vaso Cubrilovic 7 Trifko Grabez
4 Cvijetko Popovic 8 Danilo Ilic

6. Miljacka river

7. FERDINAND ASSASINATED
• Austrian authorities interrogated    
 Black Hand group     demanded
that the Serbian government responsible 
   Serbia unwilling to hand 3 men  
  Nikola Pasic (PM of Serbia):- “would be
a violation of Serbia's Constitution and
criminal in law"

8. • first two years of the First World War   
  Serbian Army      suffered a
series of military defeats
• Black Hand ( responsble for war)    
 Disbanded
• Dimitrijevic and several of the Black Hand
leaders were arrested

9. German government
• full support for Austro-Hungary
• Russia Govt    support    Serbia
• Austro-Hungarian declares war on Serbia.
• Austria Bombed Belgrade; Serbs ask for Russian help
•
Russia mobilizes its armed forces in support of Serbia.
• Provoked by Germany France nw moved it’s troups

11. Germany declares war on Russia.
• Italy declares    does not intend to honour
its Triple Alliance obligations    will remain
neutral
• Germany declares war on France. Found Belgium an
easy route to capture Paris
• Belgian neutrality was guaranteed
by Britain (sympathetic to Belgium)
• But Britain Warns       Germany   
   Britain would go to war if Belgium was
invaded.

12. Battle of frontiers
• At Mons Britian met with German army.But
the allies decided to retreat after the huge toll
of death
• Battle of frontiers:
– the intrusion attack of france to Germany,by
getting into it’s territory—200,000 men lost to
men—French disaster    Germany advance 
 

13. Battle of Marne;the miracle
• Combined attack of Britain+ France towards
Germany; French saved by a miracle
• IN THE EAST
• Russia well advanced into Austria; Austria lost

14. Battle of Tannenberg
• Whr Russian and German Army collided;
Victory for Germany
• Battle of Yrpes
• Germany’s last chance of oppurtunity to
intrude West

15. Schlieffen Plan
Alfred von Schlieffen, German Army Chief of Staff
(Plan: Attack and Defeat France 1st,before Russia could awake)

16. The German Army marches
into Belgium
• Britain declares war on Germany.
•      
• Austro-Hungary declares war on Russia.
• France declares war on Austro-Hungary.
• Britain declares war on Austro-Hungary.
• France invades Lorraine.

17. Defeat of Schlieffen Plan

18. • 65 million particiapted
• 10 million died
• 20 million wounded phsically or mentally
• Destroyed the very lands: not a tree stand; full
of deadbodies
• Germany Responsible for War
• Reconstruction of Villages and Urban

19. 14 Points of Wilson
• Fullfilled 3 out of 14
• 1.Evacuation and restoration of Belgium
• 2.Evacuation and restoration of all French
lands;return of Alsace-Lorain to France
• 3.Establishment of an independent
Poland,with free and secure access to the sea.

20. League of Nations
• The members were those countries victorius
on war.Germany & Austria Hungary excluded
• USA stayed away.Russia was not allowed to
join

21. The war Ended in books, but not in
real terms
by
Akhil Krishnan
amiddleclassman@gmail.com