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WORLD WAR 1

Ammara Aabroo Saliha Memoona

Ramzan Fatima Farooq Khalid
 • War is defined as:
• “When two parties get stick to their point of
view, war arises” (General definition)

• “An act of force to compel our enemy to do our

What is War? will”
• (Carl Von Clausewitz )

• “War means destruction of innocent lives, tears

to thousands of mothers eyes”
• (Edwin Starr)
 Cold war

Nuclear war ( atomic war or thermonuclear war)

Limited war
Types of
war: Full scale war

Media War

Culture War
 Intra state conflicts
War may be
due to; Inter state conflicts
Extra state conflicts
 Assassination of
Trigger for War: Archduke Franz
Ferdinand.

WORL WAR I
(1914-1918) Germany, Austria-
Hungary, Bulgaria and
the Ottoman Empire
fought against Great
Countries:
Britain, France,
Russia, Italy, Romania,
Japan and the United
States
Chorley’s Darkest
Day

• Chorley’s Darkest Day

Phases of the War
• The conflict developed on several fronts in
Europe, Africa, and Asia.
• The two main scenarios
• Western front: where the Germans
confronted Britain, France and, after 1917,
the Americans
• Eastern front: in which the Russians fought
against Germans and Austro-Hungarians.
 The Tipping Point of the
The war of movement War

stages of
1914 1915–1916 1917
the war
The war of attrition
 1914: The war of
movement

• At the beginning, the Germans

implemented the so-called Schlieffen Plan:
they attacked France through neutral
Belgium to get a quick defeat of the French
army. This would allow German troops to
turn against Russia before the Tsar could
mobilize his massive army.
 Because at that time in eastern front Russia
attack Austria hungary and Germany. And that
is called Battle of the Marne, in the fall of
1914.
1914: The war of
movement The French, however, managed to stop the
German attack in the Battle of the Marne.

continue…. In that while, The Western Front was stabilized

along thousands of kilometers and soldiers
dug trenches preparing for a long war.
 The confrontation between major
industrial powers led to war at a level of
violence and horror never contemplated.
1915-1916:

The war of The invention of new weapons (grenades,

attrition flamethrowers, tanks, toxic gas) and the
use of machine gun led to systematic and
great massacres, which, however, did not
break the tactical tie on the Western Front.
1915-1916: The war of attrition
continue….

• The Battle of Verdun was the biggest example of what the German generals called
the "war of attrition". Throughout 1916, heavy fighting took place around the
French city of Verdun. More than 700,000 soldiers were killed but the front
remained immovable. Something similar happened in the other battles .
 Two great events came to turn the tide of the
war in 1917: the U.S. entry into the war in
April and Russia out of the conflict in
December.
1917: The
Tipping
Point of the United States had remained neutral in the
conflict but had supplied the Entente
War countries. The Germans decided to undertake
submarine warfare, a risky tactic of attacking
and sinking not only British or French ships but
also attacking neutral shipping.
 The leaving of the war by revolutionary
Russia allowed Germany to concentrate
their forces on the Western Front.

The summer of 1918 witnessed the last

The End of desperate German attacks. However,
War Germany was practically alone.

The new democratic regime had to sign the

German armistice on November 11, 1918.
The war was over
The Peace
Treaties
 Alliances
Militarism

Causes of
world war 1
Nationalism

Assassination
Imperialism
Militarism

• Massive build up of
armed forces
• Prevent war from
break out
Militarism

• Armed forces dominate in national and foreign policies

• Germany build massive ships
o Dreadnought
• Schlieffen Plan
 Triple Alliance (Central Powers)

• Germany
• Austria – Hungary
• Italy
Alliances
Triple Entente (Allied Powers)

• Great Britain
• Russia
• France
 Extreme pride people feel for
their culture and country

Nationalism
Unification of Germany and
Italy
 World power acquire
territories
• Britain: all over the world
Imperialism • France: in Africa, South
America and Asia
• Germany: in Africa and Baltics
• Austria – Hungary: from the
collapsing Ottoman Empire
 Archduke Franz
Ferdinand and
Duchess Sophie.
Assassination

By nationalist group
of Serbia.
 Austria blamed Serbia
and declared war

Germany pledged their

support for Austria
Domino
Effect Russia Pledged their
support for Serbia

Germany declared war

on Russia
 France pledged
Germany declared
their support for
war on France
Russia

Domino
Effect
Britain support
Germany invades
Belgium and
Belgium on the way
declare war on
to France
Germany
 World War 1 caused more damage than
any other war before it.

Germany and Russia suffered most, both

CONSEQUENCES
countries lost almost 2 million men in
OF WW1
battle.

Large sections of land were completed

destroyed.
 Economic

Some major
consequences Social
of ww1
are as follow
Human (casualties and injuries)
 Germany and about 60% of
The economic
Great Britain the money
efforts of each
spent their

country were
countries a lot economy
Economic focused on
winning
of money. produced.

WW1 cost the

the war. Led inflation.
participating
 World War 1 completely. Birth rates went
changed society down.
Social

Role of women (Right to vote) Destruction of

changed industry.
 Speaking about the war’s “lost generation”

Physically, traumatically and emotionally.

Human Deformities, amputations and scars.

injuries
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Multitude of symptoms
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