The document provides an overview of World War 1 from 1914-1918, covering its main causes, key events and battles, major players, technological developments, and America's eventual entry into the war in 1917. It describes the stalemate on the Western Front with trench warfare and high casualties at battles like Verdun and the Somme. It also discusses fighting on the Eastern Front against Russia and in colonies in Africa.

1. 1914-1918: The World at War

2. Causes of the War

7. 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]

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

10. The “Spark”

11. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

12. The Assassination: Sarajevo

13. The Assassin: Gavrilo Princip

14. American Poster

15. Financing the War

16. German Poster

17. A Multi-Front War

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

20. The Western Front

21. Trench Warfare

22. Trench Warfare “ No Man’s Land”

25. War Is HELL !!

26. Sacrifices in War

27. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

28. The Eastern Front

30. The “Colonial” Fronts

31. Sikh British Soldiers in India

32. Fighting in Africa British Sikh Mountain Gunners Black Soldiers in the German Schutztruppen [German E. Africa]

33. Fighting in Africa 3 rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade

34. Fighting in Salonika, Greece French colonial marine infantry from Cochin, China - 1916

40. America Joins the Allies

42. The Sinking of the Lusitania

44. The Zimmerman Telegram

45. The Yanks Are Coming!

47. Americans in the Trenches

48. The War of the Industrial Revolution: New Technology

49. French Renault Tank

50. British Tank at Ypres

51. U-Boats

52. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

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

54. The Flying Aces of World War I Eddie Rickenbacher, US Francesco Barraco, It. Rene Pauk Fonck, Fr. Manfred von Richtoffen, Ger. [The “ Red Baron ”] Willy Coppens de Holthust, Belg. Eddie “Mick” Mannoch, Br.

55. Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant

56. Looking for the “Red Baron?”

57. The Zeppelin

58. Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers

59. Poison Gas Machine Gun

60. “ Art” of World War I

61. “ A Street in Arras” John Singer Sargent, 1918

62. “ Oppy Wood” – John Nash, 1917

63. “ Those Who Have Lost Their Names” Albin Eggar-Linz, 1914

64. “ Gassed and Wounded” Eric Kennington, 1918

65. “ Paths of Glory” C. R. W. Nevinson, 1917

66. 1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies 50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died