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ww1 was the first war in which weapons of mass destruction were used and it was a disaster this ppt explains the causes, events, and effects of ww1

ww1 was the first war in which weapons of mass destruction were used and it was a disaster this ppt explains the causes, events, and effects of ww1

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  1. 1. 1914-1918: The World at War
  2. 2. Causes of the War
  3. 3. 1. The Alliance System Triple Entente: Triple Alliance:
  4. 4. Two Armed Camps! Allied Powers: Central Powers:
  5. 5. The Major Players: 1914-17 Nicholas II [Rus] George V [Br] Pres. Poincare [Fr] Allied Powers: Franz Josef [A-H] Wilhelm II [Ger] Victor Emmanuel II [It] Central Powers: Enver Pasha [Turkey]
  6. 6. Europe in 1914
  7. 7. 2. Militarism & Arms Race 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1914 94 130 154 268 289 398 Total Defense Expenditures for the Great Powers [Ger., A-H, It., Fr., Br., Rus.] in millions of £s. 1910-1914 Increase in Defense Expenditures France 10% Britain 13% Russia 39% Germany 73%
  8. 8. 3. Economic & Imperial Rivalries
  9. 9. 4. Aggressive Nationalism
  10. 10. The “Spark”
  11. 11. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family
  12. 12. The Assassination
  13. 13. Who’s To Blame?
  14. 14. The Plan
  15. 15. Recruitment Posters
  16. 16. A Young Australian Recruit
  17. 17. Recruits of the Central Powers Austro- Hungarians A German Soldier Says Farewell to His Mother
  18. 18. New French Recruits
  19. 19. A German Boy Pretends to Be a Soldier
  20. 20. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 France Germany Russia Britain Millions Soldiers Mobilized
  21. 21. Women and the War Effort
  22. 22. Financing the War
  23. 23. For Recruitment
  24. 24. Ammunitions Workers
  25. 25. French Women Factory Workers
  26. 26. German Women Factory Workers
  27. 27. Working in the Fields
  28. 28. A Woman Ambulance Driver
  29. 29. The Western Front: A “War of Slow destruction”
  30. 30. A Multi-Front War
  31. 31. The Western Front
  32. 32. Trench Warfare
  33. 33. Trench Warfare “No Man’s Land”
  34. 34. Verdun – February, 1916 e German attacking. e Each side had 500,000 casualties.
  35. 35. The Somme – July, 1916 e 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. e Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.
  36. 36. War IsHELL !!
  37. 37. Sacrifices in War
  38. 38. The Eastern Front
  39. 39. The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915
  40. 40. The “Colonial” Fronts
  41. 41. Sikh British Soldiers in India
  42. 42. Fighting in Africa British Sikh Mountain Gunners Black Soldiers in the German Colonies [German E. Africa]
  43. 43. Fighting in Africa 3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade
  44. 44. America Joins the Allies
  45. 45. The Sinking of the Lusitania
  46. 46. The Yanks Are Coming!
  47. 47. Americans in the Trenches
  48. 48. Ending of War
  49. 49. 11 a.m., November 11, 1918
  50. 50. TREATY OF VERSAILLES/ PEACE  It was enforce to stop future war  World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919  It took place in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France.  It took force on 10 Jan 1920
  51. 51. What is the Treaty of Versailles?
  52. 52. Terms in the treaty
  53. 53. Legacy of War
  54. 54. 1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies 50 million died
  55. 55. 16 Million Dead
  56. 56. The Somme American Cemetary, France 116,516 Americans Died
  57. 57. World War I Casualties 0 1,000,000 2,000,000 3,000,000 4,000,000 5,000,000 6,000,000 7,000,000 8,000,000 9,000,000 10,000,000 Russia Germany Austria-Hungary France Great Britain Italy Turkey US
  58. 58. WW2 Casualties
  59. 59. New Technologies & Facts of War
  60. 60. French Renault Tank
  61. 61. British Tank at Ypres
  62. 62. 1st X-ray machine This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
  63. 63. 1st Blood Bank
  64. 64. U-Boats
  65. 65. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats
  66. 66. The Airplane
  67. 67. Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant
  68. 68. Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers
  69. 69. Poison Gas Machine Gun
  70. 70. VIDEOS

Editor's Notes

  • Ww1 STARDED IN 1914 AND ENDED IN 1918 it was fought between
    Allied : France , British , Russia , USA , Italy
    Against the central powers : German and Austria Hungary.
  • THE 1ST RESON WSAS THE ALLINES SYSTEM BEFORE THE WAS THER WAS A TRIPLE ALLLINCE
    Allied : Britain , France, Russia,
    CENTRAL : GERMANY, ITILY, AUSTRIA HUNGERY
  • AFTER THE WAS THER WERE TWO GROUPS IE ALLIED AND THEE CENTRAL POWER
    ITELY CHANGED TEAMS
    TERKEY JOINS THE CENTRAL POWER
  • People in power during war
  • GERRN ARE THE CEN
  • Every one knew a big war was coming due to the increasing tension since 1880, so every one was increasing their military power, and buying new and more destructive wepons and were increasing their military power
  • ECONOMICS and imperialism WAs THE DRIVING FORCE OF THE war every one wanted dominance over the other
    a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means.
  • nationalism WAS NEW AND GROWING AMOUNG THE EUROPIAN NATIONS IE DIFFERNENT ETINIC GROUPS IN EUROPE WANTED INDEPENDENCE DUE TO NATIONALISM
  • THE LAST SPARK THAT CAUSED THE WAS THE
  • ASSASINATION OF Archduke Franz Ferdinand ON June 28, 1914 HE WAS THE
    member of the imperial Habsburg dynasty, and from 1896 until his death the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
  • HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY A SERBIAN MAN SO AUSTRIA HUNGERY BLAMED SERBIA
  • SO AUSTRIA HUNGERY BLAMED SERBIA AND DECLEARED WAR ON SERBIA GERMANE SAW THE OPERTUNITY AND DECLEARD WAR ON FRANCE AND RUSSIA
  • FRANCE HAD STRONG DEFENCE ON GERMAN BORDER SO Germany TRIED TO ENTER France through an neutral nation BELGIAM , this MADE BRITAN angry and so they DECLARE WAR ON GERMANEY FOR INVADING A NEUTRAL NATON
  • RECRUTMENT STARTED AND YOUNG MEN AND BOYS WERE RECRUTED FOT THE WAR
  • MOST OF THE YOUNG MEN WERE RECRUTED IN THE ARMY
  • Young men were mandatory to go to war on both sides
  • Youngest solider was 12 years old
  • 80 % of French and German male population between the age of 18 to 40 were sent to war
  • Women played an important part in the war a lot of new strategies to get the whole population to the best use
  • Women were use to finance the war
  • 1ST TIME WOMEN WERE TAKEN IN THE ARMY IE NAVY
  • WOMEN WORKED IN MAKING WEPONS
  • IT WAS A MOVEMENT TO MAKE USE OF THE WHOLE POPULATION FOR THE WAR
  • Women on both sides were recruited for work
  • Women were also encouraged to work out side due to lesser man power on the country grounds
  • AFTER THE INVATION OF BELGIUM …England and Russia also joined fight
  • The most deadly war was fought on the western front but due to high resistance from France and troops from England the movement was slow and it turned into a trench war
  • It is a slow warfare and not a lot of area was won only a few km a months , there was a constant firing and bombing and atterly fire .
  • Verdun is a small city in northeast France, one of the biggest and deadliest betel was fought here, The Battle of Verdun, fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916, was the largest and longest battle of the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies.
    French casualties amounted to about 400,000, German ones to about 350,000. Some 300,000 were killed
  • The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive,. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on the, River Somme in France. It was an offensive from the allied and.. slide
  • Due to the use of deadly weapons and chemical FOR THE FIRST time A LOT of people were affected ,killed or badly injured
  • Along with the deaths there were imageries loss of limbs and phycological problems
  • Gallipoli is located in the European part of Turkey,
    of Gallipoli, was an unsuccessful attempt by the Allied Powers to control the sea route from Europe to Russia during World War I
  • There was also war in the colonies of germaney and britan and local people were hired to fight
  • In British controlled Indian, Sikhs and local people were recruited in the army and were send to the war fronts in other parts of world
  • Germany had colonies in Africa and British and French forces attacked those as well to achieve control
  • Lusitania was a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. The ship was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat.
    Germany was stopping the food and supplies rotes in sea to starve the British in doing so they destroyed many ships including a ship carrying 128 Americans. Which sparked a wave of anger in American people and government.
  • And so the American government declared war on the central power i.e. Germany
  • American troops were send to the western front to fight side by side to the British and French. This was the end of war for Germany
    All the allied powers attacked with all of their strength and Germany started to lose
  • Then on 11 November 1998, at 11 am Germany and the central power surrender
  • What this war gave us
  • The 1918 influenza pandemic was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic, the first of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus.
    In the United States, it was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918.
    It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected with this virus.
  • 10 million soldier and 7 million civilian died
    The greatest number of casualties and wounds were inflicted by artillery, followed by small arms, and then by poison gas.
  • Sir Winston Churchill once described the battles of the Somme and Verdun, which were typical of trench warfare in their futile and indiscriminate slaughter
  • 1st time tanks were used
  • 1ST TIME FIGHTER AIRPLANE FLEET WAS CREATED AND THE 1ST AIRCRAFT CARRIER WAS BUILT Due to war
  • 1st time flame thrower and grenade launchers were use
  • Chemical warfare was introduced in this war b Germany and machine guns were extensively used

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