The Great War

RUSSIA IS OUT,
AMERICA IS IN

Learning Targets
I can list and explain the M.A.I.N. causes of the Great War
I can identify the members of each of the alliances in WWI
I can explain how the assassination of AD Franz Ferdinand

served as the powder keg to ignite WWI

I can explain why America wanted to stay neutral in the war.
I can trace American feelings about the conflict to show how
and why we became increasingly more sympathetic to the
Allied cause.
I can explain how the United States prepared at home to
enter and fight in the war.
I can explain how the US prepared at home to enter and fight
in the war.
I can explain the technological innovations in WWI.

Review
28 June 1914, Gavrilo

Princip shot and killed

Arch Duke Franz
Ferdinand, the heir to
the Austrian-Hungarian
throne in Sarajevo.
The assassination caused
a chain of events that
would have much of
Europe mobilizing for
war.

von Schlieffen Plan

The Schlieffen Plan was

created in 1905 by Alfred

von Schlieffen as a thought
exercise.
It became the German plan
for war.
In the event of a two front
war, the plan expected
France to attack the
common boarder.
The Germans use a large
contingent of their army to
sweep though France and
take them out of the war
quickly, then turn East to
fight the Russians.

von Schlieffen Plan ( part 2)

Plan had a very precise

timeline.
The plan called for the
Germans to go through
Belgium on their way to
Paris.
The delays in Belgium
caused the Germans to
get bogged down outside
of Paris.
Race to the Sea

Eastern Front
Russians mobilized

millions of men to fight.

They were poorly trained,
poorly equipped, poorly fed
and poorly led.
The Central Powers caused
4million casualties.
Paul von Hindenberg We
had to move the piles of
corpses to have a clear field
of fire.

Russia Begins to Collapse

Czar takes over the war

effort.
While at the front in
February 1917, Petrograd
(St. Petersburg) erupted
in revolution.
Czar was arrested and
abdicated.
Very difficult to keep the
army together
To sew more discontent,
Germans sent an exiled
VI Lenin back to Russia

RED OCTOBER
In October, Bolsheviks

started taking over the

Provisional Government.
Bolsheviks were secretly
sponsored by Germans
The Allied Powers, trying to
keep an Eastern Front, sent
troops to help the
Provisional Government
When the Bolsheviks took
over, they sued for peace.
3 March 1918, Russia
signed the Treaty of BrestLitovsk

New Technologies of Warfare

Barbed Wire

Creeping Barrage

New Technologies of Warfare

Air Power

Tanks

New Technologies of Warfare

Machine Guns

U Boats

New Technologies of Warfare

GAS

The Doughboys arrive Over There

Cantigny
Chateau-Thierry
Belleau Wood
Second Battle of the

Marne
Mause- Argonne

General Black Jack

Pershing lost 120,000
men

Sedan