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Towards the End…
Russia Exits the War
• After three years of WWI, Russia is in
economic and political turmoil
• The Russian
Revolution:
Riots in
March 1917
led to the
collapse of
the Russian
Monarchy
Russia Exits the War
• January 1918: The new Russian leader,
Lenin, signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk
with Germany (agreement to stop fighting
each other)
• Russia is no longer involved in WWI
• This allows Germany to focus on Western
Front
QUESTION
Russia Exits the War:
- What
effect do you think this had
on the remaining Allies?
Germany Provokes the U.S
U.S. ends neutrality after two
significant events:
SINKING OF LUSITANIA, 1915
Unrestricted submarine warfare: German submarines
(“U-boats”) were sinking any ship without warning in the
waters around Great Britain.
Germans
torpedoed a
British cruise
ship called the
Lusitania, killing
128 Americans
(Of the 1,906
people on
board, 1,098
died)
ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM, 1917
British intercepted a secret
message from Germany to
Mexico. Telegram promised to
Mexico some U.S. land,
if Mexico supported the German
war effort.
This is the ACTUAL
telegram Germany
tried to send to
Mexico. Why do
you think the
message was only a
bunch of numbers?
- What were the
Germans going to do?
- What assumptions did
Germany make about
the U.S.? Japan?
- How do you think the
U.S. felt about the
promise to Mexico?
Explain.
- What did Germany
expect England/Britain
would do after
unleashing unrestricted
submarine warfare?
United States enters War
• In April 1917, Congress declared
war on Germany.
http://www.efootage.com/stock-footage/75138/U.s._Enters_WW_I/ (click to watch clip)
TOTAL WAR
The Great War
demanded all the
resources of the
countries that fought it
Video: Women’s War Effort (click)
http://www.efootage.com/stockfootage/75142/Women_Contribute_To_
War_Effort/
TOTAL WAR
The Great War
demanded all the
resources of the
countries that fought it:
Video: Doughboys go to war
/ Red Cross Parade (click)
http://www.efootage.com/sto
ckfootage/75140/Doughboys_
Red_Cross_Parade/
TOTAL WAR
The Great War demanded all
the resources of the
countries that fought it:
•Governments took control
of factories. It told them
what to produce and how to
much of it to make.
•Rationing: Limited how
much food and other goods
people could buy and hold
(so armies in the field would
have the supplies needed)
Video Clips
• Women’s War Effort (click)
http://www.efootage.com/stockfootage/75142/Women_Contribute_To_Wa
r_Effort/
• Doughboys go to war / Red Cross Parade
(click)
http://www.efootage.com/stock-footage/75140/Doughboys_Red_Cross_Parade/
TOTAL WAR
The Great War demanded
all the resources of the
countries that fought it:
•War Bonds: Sold by the
government to the nation’s
people to gain money for
the war and make civilians
feel involved in their
national militaries. (A loan
to the government).
Video: War Bonds / Weapons Production (click)
http://www.efootage.com/stockfootage/75141/Stars_Sell_War_Bonds_Weapons_Production/
QUESTION
U.S. Enters the War:
- How
many years had the war
been going on without the U.S.?
End of the War
• American troops arrive and provide a morale boost
to war weary European soldiers
• By March 1918, Allied troops were pushing the
Germans back across France and Belgium.
• German uprisings forced their leader, Kaiser
Wilhelm II, to flee into exile in the Netherlands
• By Fall of 1918 Austria-Hungary also began to
collapse
• At 11am on November 11, 1918 the new German
government signed an armistice (an agreement to
stop fighting), officially ending the war.
Costs of the War
Deaths in Battle
Wounded in Battle
ALLIES
Almost 5 million
Almost 13
million
CENTRAL
POWERS
Over 11 million
Over 8 million
QUESTION
U.S. Enters the War:
-What
do these figures explain
about both sides?
Influenza
Epidemic:
In 1918 there
was a
“pandemic”
(the spread of a
disease across the
world)
that was more
destructive
than the war
itself.
Over 20 million people were killed by the flu
in just a few months, threatening
nations/people on each side of World War I.
(On just a single day in Berlin, 1,500 people died)