A Global Conflict
Gallipoli Campaign
• Battle against the Ottomans at the strait of Dardanelles
• Supply line to Russia
• Turned into Trench warfare and dragged on
• Allies pulled out with no success and 250,000 casualties
Gallipoli Campaign
Battles in Africa and Asia
• German colonial possession came under attack• Japanese attacked German outposts in China
and captured Germany’s Pacific island colonies• British and French recruited subjects from their
colonies– These colonies thought they may gain independence– Mohandas Gandhi
America Joins the Fight
• 1917, Germans intensified submarine warfare
• Unrestricted warfare by Germany
• February 1917, the Zimmerman note
• April 2 1917, President Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany
German U-Boats & Zimmerman Note
Home Front
• Total War– All resources devoted to the war effort– Control of the economy– Factory production– Unemployment disappeared– Rationing– Antiwar protest oppressed– propaganda
Propaganda Poster
Women in the War
• New jobs– Replaced men in factories, offices, and shops– Built tanks and munitions– Plowed fields, paved streets, and ran
hospitals– Supplied troops with food, clothing and
weapons
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