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WWI: The World at War - Causes, Timeline & Major Players

Explore the causes, key events, and major players of World War I from 1914-1918. Learn about the Allied Powers, Central Powers, and neutral nations in this conflict that led to immense loss of life. Discover the impact of economic rivalries, aggressive nationalism, and the spark that ignited the war. Witness the horrors of trench warfare, the introduction of new technologies, and the legacy of the deadliest conflict in history.

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WWI: The World at War - Causes, Timeline & Major Players

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  1. 1914-1918:The Worldat War

  2. Causesof theWar

  3. Two Armed Camps! Allied Powers: Central Powers:

  4. Label and color code on your map • Central Powers (Triple Entente): • Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Bulgaria, Germany, Austria-Hungary • Allied Powers (Triple Alliance): • France, Great Britain, Belgium, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Albania, Italy, Portugal, Russia • Neutral Nations: • Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands

  5. The Major Players: 1914-17 Allied Powers: Central Powers: Nicholas II [Rus] Wilhelm II [Ger] George V [Br] Victor Emmanuel II [It] Enver Pasha[Turkey] Pres. Poincare [Fr] Franz Josef [A-H]

  6. Europe in 1914

  7. 3. Economic & Imperial Rivalries

  8. 4. Aggressive Nationalism

  9. The“Spark”

  10. Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family

  11. The Assassination: Sarajevo

  12. The Assassin: GavriloPrincip

  13. Who’s To Blame?

  14. Recruitment Posters

  15. The Western Front: A “War of Attrition”

  16. A Multi-Front War

  17. The Western Front

  18. Trench Warfare

  19. Trench Warfare “No Man’s Land”

  20. The Somme – July, 1916 • 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. • Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.

  21. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

  22. The War of theIndustrial Revolution:NewTechnology

  23. French Renault Tank

  24. British Tank at Ypres

  25. U-Boats

  26. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

  27. The Airplane “Squadron Over the Brenta”Max Edler von Poosch, 1917

  28. The Flying Aces of World War I FrancescoBarraco, It. Eddie “Mick”Mannoch, Br. Eddie Rickenbacher, US Manfred vonRichtoffen, Ger.[The “RedBaron”] Rene PaukFonck, Fr. Willy Coppens deHolthust, Belg.

  29. Curtis-Martin U. S. Aircraft Plant

  30. The Zeppelin

  31. FlameThrowers GrenadeLaunchers

  32. Poison Gas Machine Gun

  33. 11 a.m., November 11, 1918

  34. 9,000,000Dead

  35. The Somme American Cemetary, France 116,516 Americans Died

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