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World War I: Turning Points and Endings

Explore the key events like the Battle of Verdun, U.S. entry, and Hundred Days Offensive leading to the end of WWI. Discover how alliances, campaigns, and revolutions shaped the war's outcome.

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World War I: Turning Points and Endings

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  1. Good Morning! • NVC • Turning Points of WWI Essential Question: How did WWI finally come to an end? Homework: RESEARCH PROJECT DUE BLOCK DAY

  2. A Bloody Stalemate • Western Front • Campaign in France/Belgium • Result of failure of Schlieffen Plan • “A living Hell” • No side ever advanced more than 6 miles • Battle of Verdun: lasts 10 months • Battle of Ypres: 6,000 French killed by poison gas in only 10 minutes

  3. Russia Struggles • Eastern Front • Russia/Middle East • Russia struggling • Not yet industrialized • Short on food, weapons, uniforms • GIANT ARMY • Battle of Gallipoli • Allies need to defeat Ottoman Empire to keep Russia in the war • Open up access to Russia through the Black Sea • Plan Fails

  4. The Final Push • March 1917 Shortages on food and fuel due to war lead to REVOLUTION in Russia • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Russia makes peace with Germany and withdraws from WWI • Spring Offensive • Germany redirects all troops to Western Front • Massive attack on France • Germans on the verge of victory • April 1917 U.S. enters war • 2 million fresh troops

  5. U.S. Entry into WWI • 1914-1917 U.S. is Isolationist under President Woodrow Wilson • Isolationism: no political alliances or involvement in other countries • Unrestricted Submarine Warfare • Germans sinking American ships in the Atlantic Ocean • Zimmerman Telegram • a German attempt to ally with Mexico against the United States • Social/Economic ties with Britain • Shared Anglo-Saxon culture and strong economic ties

  6. War’s End • Second Battle of the Marne(1918): British, French, and Americans stop German Spring Offensive • "I never saw men charge to their death with finer spirit.“ • Hundred Days Offensive: Britain, France, and America counterattack the Germans • Germany surrenders within one hundred days

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