World War I
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World War I
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Inevitability of war• June 28, 1914 Archduke
Francis Ferdinand of Austria assassinated
• July 5, 1914 Germany issues A-H “blank check” – pledging military
assistance if A-H goes to war against Russia
• July 23, 1914 Austria issues Serbia an ultimatum
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The inevitability of war• July 28, 1914 A-H
declares war on Serbia• July 29, 1914 Russia
orders full mobilization of its troops
• August 1,1914 Germany declares war on Russia
• August 2, 1914 Germany demands Belgium declare access to German troops
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“Belgium is a country, not a road”
• King Albert I of Belgium denied permission
• August 2, 1914 Germany declared war on France– Why??? – The Schlieffen Plan!
• August 4, 1914 Great Britain declared war on Germany for violating Belgian neutrality
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1914 – 1915 Illusions and Stalemate
• Many Europeans were excited about war– “Defend yourself
against the aggressors”
– Domestic differences were put aside
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1914 – 1915 Illusions and Stalemate
• War would be over in a few weeks– Ignored the length and
brutality of the American Civil War(prototype to World War I)
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1914 – 1915 Illusions and Stalemate
• Belief that Modern industrial war could not be conducted for more than a few months
• “Home by Christmas”
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1914 – 1915 Illusions and Stalemate
• “Fatal attraction of war”– Exhilarating release
from every day life– A glorious adventure– War would rid the
nations of selfishness– Spark a national re-
birth based on heroism
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The Schlieffen Plan’s Destructive Nature
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The Schlieffen Plan
• Invade western front 1st
• After defeating France concentrate on the Eastern front
• Avoid fighting a 2 front war
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The Schlieffen Plan’s Destructive Nature
• Germany made vast encircling movement through Belgium to enter Paris
• Underestimated speed of the British mobilization– Quickly sent troops to
France
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The Schlieffen Plan’s Destructive Nature
• Sept 6-10, 1914– Battle of Marne– Stopped the Germans
but French troops were exhausted
– Both sides dug trenches for shelter
STALEMATE
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The Trenches
• Trenches dug from English Channel to Switzerland
• 6,250 miles• 6 to 8 feet deep• Immobilized both
sides for 4 years
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The Trenches
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Life in the Trenches
• Elaborate systems of defense– barbed wire– Concrete machine gun
nests– Mortar batteries– Troops lived in holes
underground
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Life in the Trenches• Boredom
– Soldiers read to pass the time
– Sarah Bernhardt came out to the front to read poetry to the soldiers
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“Death is everywhere”• “We all had on us the
stench of dead bodies.” Death numbed the soldier’s minds.
• Shell shock• Psychological devastation
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“Death is everywhere”
• Mustard gas– Carried by the wind– Burned out soldier’s lungs– Deadly in the trenches
where it would sit at the bottom
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Life in the Trenches
• Trench warfare baffled military leaders– Attempt a breakthrough– Then return to a war of
movement– Millions of young men
sacrificed attempting the breakthrough
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Battle of Verdun• 10 months• 700,000 men killed
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Battle of Verdun• 10 months• 700,000 men killed
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The changes of war
• New weapons crippled the “frozen front”– Poison gas (mustard gas)– Hand grenades– Flame throwers– Tanks– Airplanes– Tanks– Subs
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The changes of war
• Airplanes– Dog fights in the air– Bombing inaccurate– Romanticized the
battlefields– Paris and London
bombed– Pilots fired pistols and
threw hand grenades
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The Eastern Front• Russian army moved into
Eastern Germany on August 30, 1914– Defeated
• The Austrians kicked out of Serbia
• Italians attacked Austria in 1915
• G. came to Austrian aid and pushed Russians back 300 miles into own territory
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The Eastern Front
• Much more mobile more than the West– But loss of life still very
high– 1915: 2.5 million
Russians killed, captured, or wounded
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The Eastern Front
• Germany and Austria Hungary joined by Bulgaria in Sept. 1915– Attacked and
eliminated Serbia from war
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The Home Front
• Women took war factory jobs
• Received lower wages than males
• Food shortages made running a household difficult
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The Home Front
• Censorship – Not told about high
death toll– Romanticized the
battlefields“soldiers have died a
beautiful death, in noble battle, we shall rediscover poetry…epic and chivalrous”
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The Home Front
• Censorship “Newspapers described
troops as itching to go over the top.”
“Government reported to the press that life in the trenches promoted good health and clear air”
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The Home Front
• “On Leave”Troops would stay
together so they could sympathize with each other
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The Home Front
• Impossible to hide death– Women in
mourning– Badly wounded
soldiers returned home
– Opposition began to emerge
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The war ends
• 1917 – Russia surrenders (a separate peace)
• U.S. joins the war on the Allied side
• Nov. 11, 1918 Armistice
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Death Toll of War
Allied Powers Central Powers
42 million served 23 million served
22 million casualties 15 million casualties
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Social Impact
• Men lost limbs and were mutilated• Birthrate fell markedly • Invalids unable to work • Ethnic hostility • Influenza epidemic
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Psychological impact
• “Never such innocence again”• Bitterness towards aristocratic officers
whose lives were never in danger