SUMMARY OF WORLD WAR I

BEFORE
M- ilitarism

DURING
- Trench Warfare:

AFTER
- 10 million casualties

A- lliances

Western Front, Over the

- 20 million injured

I- mperiliasm

Top, weathering the

physically & mentally

N- ationalism

conditions, rats, shell

shock

- nations destroyed (ex.

Central Powers:

- New Weapons: poison

France) and govts

Germany, Austria-

gas, machine guns, tanks,

overthrown (exs.

Hungary, Ottomans

airplanes, U-boats/subs,

Germany, Austria-

Triple Entente: France,

Hungary, the Ottoman

Britain, Russia

- U.S. is neutral until

Empire, Russia)

Neutral: U.S., Japan,

Lusitania is sunk (1915) &

Italy

the Zimmerman Note is

Paris Peace

intercepted (1917)

Conference: Big 3

- Russia is out! Peace,

Woodrow Wilsons

land, bread! Soldiers

Fourteen Points:

* THE ASSASSINATION

are the first to desert the

peace without victory,

OF ARCHDUKE FRANZ

front and start the

downsize militaries, no

FERDINAND (AUSTRIA-

Revolution

more secret deals, League

- Balkans are the Powder

Keg of Europe

HUNGARY) BY A
SERBIAN NATIONALIST.
*

of Nations
- World War I becomes a
global conflict.

Treaty of Versailles:

- Total War & Propaganda

Winners & Losers?

- Stalemate
- War of Attrition (Which

GERMANY is forced to

side can out-last the

accept all the blame:

other?)

war-guilt clause, downsize

military, lose all overseas
colonies, pay heavy
reparations, pensions to

Allied officers, lose Alsace

& Lorraine