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World War I
Course of the War
Stalemate
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Neither side could gain an advantage
Three main fronts
 Western: mainly in France
 Eastern: Russia
 Ottoman: Turkey
Western Front
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Trench Warfare
500 miles of
trenches from the
North Sea to the
Swiss border
Western Front
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War of attrition
Millions killed or
wounded
Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare
Eastern Front
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Russia never recovered from the defeat
at Tannenberg
Russia’s only asset was its huge
population
It helped the allies by tying up
hundreds of thousands of German
troops in the east
Ottoman Front
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Gallipoli (1915)
 Allies
tried to conquer Turkey in
order to get supplies to Russia
 The
battle ended in stalemate and
the Allies had to withdraw after a
year
U.S. Enters the War
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Four Reasons
 Sinking of the Lusitania
 Unrestricted
submarine warfare;
Germany attacked all ships in the
North Atlantic
 Zimmermann
 Cultural
Note
Ties to Britain
Russia Withdraws
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Czar Nicholas II
abdicates the throne
in March, 1917
Provisional
government
continues the war;
5.5 million Russian
casualties
Russia Withdraws
 Russian Revolution in November, 1917
 Treaty of Brest Litovsk ends the war in the
east between Russia and Germany