History 4 Essays
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worldwar1-1.pptxHow Technology Changed the Face of the War
Readings: Smith, et al., 891-902
WHY GLOBAL WAR IN 1914?
Break of Multi-national Empires
Intense Nationalism
Social Darwinism
Yellow Journalism
Arms Race and Rise of Armaments Industry
New Weapons
New Weapons (continued)
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Serbian nationalism is a big problem then and now
Who Fought?
England, France, Belgium (neutral but attacked), Russia, Serbia, Italy, Rumania, U.S., Japan, China, and Brazil
Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire
Battlefronts
Western front and Trenches
Lusitania
How World War I ends:
All European powers worn down—millions of casualties, millions of mutilated men
British blockage leads to famine conditions in Germany and Austria-Hungary
Germans believed they had to resume u-boat attacks
US Enters the War:
Germans feel they have to renew unrestricted submarine warfare to end British blockade or morale will be totally ruined
Zimmerman Telegram and U.S. – Mexico Relations
April 1917, Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war.
Ludendoff Offensive in March 1918
Germans defeated 11 of November 1918
Casualties of World War I
Great Britain: 947, 000 dead; 2,122,000 wounded
France: 1,385,000 dead; 3,044,000 wounded
Russia: 1,700,000 dead; 4,950,000 wounded
Italy: 460,000 dead; 947,000 wounded
US: 115,000 dead; 206,000 wounded
Germany: 1,808,000 dead; 4,247,000 wounded
Austrio-Hungarian Empire: 1,200,000 dead; 3,620,000 wounded
Ottoman Empire: 325,000 dead; 400,000 wounded
