WORLD WAR I

by: Gabriela P.
 Index

➢ Development of the
conflict
❏ characteristics

➢ Phases and events

❏ War of movement
❏ Trench warfare
❏ Ending of the war
 Characteristics
● 16 nations took part

● machine guns, flamethrowers, toxic

gases, mines, submarines and airplanes

● new defence system: trenches

● new forms of combat: psychological

warfare

● social and economical transformations

Food rationing
Phases and events
● The war of movement (1914)
Phases and events
● Trench warfare (1915-1916)
War is over
(1917-1918)
The US joins in 1917 (allies). Russia
withdrew after the triumph of
communist revolution and the
signing of the treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

In 1918 the allies launched an

offensive on all fronts causing the
surrender of the central powers.
Same year, US president Woodraw
Wilson set out the 14 points, a
statement of principales for world
peace
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