Chapter 29: The Great War Made by: Aidé Miranda Joshua Pinera Regina Fragoso World History Two

1. Aide Miranda
Joshua Piñera
Regina Fragoso

2. MARCHING TOWARDS WAR

3. RISING TENSIONS IN EUROPE
 NATIONALISM
 MILITARISM
 IMPERIALISM

4. TANGLED ALLIANCES
 TRIPLE ALLIANCE
 Germany
 Austria-Hungary
 Italy
 TRIPLE ENTENTE:
 Great Britain
 France
 Russia
Rivalries and mistrust led to the creation of military alliances between
Europe’s Great powers

5. CRISIS IN THE BALKANS
 Austria annexed two
Balkan areas: Bosnia
and Herzegovina. Serbia
had wanted those
provinces so they were
outraged.
 Archduke Franz
Ferdinand was killed on
June 28, 1914 by Gavrilo
Princip a Serbian
member of the Black
Hand.
 Austria declared war on
Serbia.

6.  Russia was Serbia’s
ally so it started
moving it’s troops to
the Russian- Austrian
border and to the
German border.
 Germany declared
war on France and
Great Britain
declared war on
Germany.
EUROPE PLUNGES INTO WAR

7. THE GREAT WAR BEGINS
 CENTRAL
POWERS:
 Germany
 Austria-Hungary
○ Ottoman Empire
 ALLIES:
 Great Britain
 France
 Russia
○ Japan and Italy
The great war started in the summer of 1914 and everybody
thought it wouldn’t last long.

8. A BLOODY STALEMATE
 The war turned into a bloody
stalemate because both sides
kept fighting and losing
soldiers but neither of them
would win or be in advantage.
 Germany created the
Schlieffen Plan
 Allies attacked the Germans
in the battle of Marne and
after four days of fighting
Germany retreated.
 By 1915 trench warfare
began.

9. THE BATTLE ON THE EASTERN
FRONT
 The Eastern front war the
battlefield along the
German and Russian
border.
 Russia struggled in war
because they had not been
industrialized yet and they
sent their troops to the east
to fight Germany and
because of this Germany
was not able to focus 100%
on fighting at the west.
 The war spread to Africa
and Southeast and
Southwest Asia.

10. A GLOBAL CONFLICT
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11. WAR AFFECTS THE WORLD
 ALLIES
 Japan
 Australia
 Italy
 Later the USA
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 CENTRAL POWERS
 Ottoman Turks
 Bulgaria

12. WAR AFFECTS THE HOME
FRONT
Total War
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13. THE ALLIES WIN THE WAR
RUSSIA LEAVES THE WAR
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USA JOINS THE ALLIES
GERMANY IS EXPECTANT
USA TIPS THE
BALANCE OF THE WAR

14. On November 11th World War
1 came to an end with an
armistice between the German
and French government.
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15. About 8.5 million soldiers died.
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21 million soldiers were wounded.
War price: $338 billion dollars.
A lot of resentment was left around the world.

16. A FLAWED PEACE
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17. THE ALLIES MEET AND
DEBATE
The "BIG FOUR" meet at Paris on
January 18, 1919.
 Woodrow Wilson (USA)
 Georges Clemenceau (France)
 David Lloyd George (Great Britain)
 Vittorio Orlando (Italy)
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18. "The fourteen points"
 End secret treaties
 Freedom of the seas
 Free trade
 Reduced national armies and navies
 Adjustment of colonial claims
 A GENERAL ASSOCIATION OF NATIONS: "The
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19. "THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES"
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21. The treaty of
Versailles blamed
Germany for
everything so this
caused Germany to
feel anger and
resentment.
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22. This finally led to World War 2...
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