World War 1: Causes, During War, Impacts, Geological Impacts

Prompt 2

The Long Fuse: Militarism

Nations were heavily building up and investing into their military with Industrialization came heavier weapons. All the other nations were doing it so others followed

The Long Fuse: Industrialization

with new technology came new forms of weapons (machine guns, submarines, poisonous gas)

The Long Fuse: Liberalism

fear of the mob; mainly driven by the industrialization

The Long Fuse: Nationalism

Social Tensions amongst nations arose with Social unrest of the haves and have notes therefore leading many to wanting their own “Splendid little war”

The Long Fuse: Internal Dissent; France 1906-1909

Huge strikes held in France

The Long Fuse: Internal Dissent; Germany 1912

Socialists largest group in Reichstag

The Long Fuse: Internal Dissent; Russia 1912-1914

Massive wave of violent strikes against traditional society

The Long Fuse: Rigid Alliances

were secret alliances made by the Nations behind each other’s backs

The Long Fuse Explodes: June 28 1914

War breaks out after Franz Ferdinand was killed by the leader of the Black Hand Society and Franz Ferdinand’s father of Austria declares war on Serbia

Course of the War (1914-1918)

Mainly trench warfare but all nations were mainly met at a Stalemate which resulted it going nowhere

Battle of Verdun 1916

300,000 soldiers fallen on each side and one of many stalemate battles

Central Powers

Germany, Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire

Entente Powers

Great Britain, France & Russia

Schieffen Plan

Germany’s “full proof plan” to overrun Belgium & France and return to Germany to defeat Russia; fails

Brest-Litovsk Treaty

Russia’s early departure from the war as it was going through a revolution; resulted in them giving up some of their land

A Modern War

A label that explains for the use of new weaponry such as barbed-wire, mustard gas and phosphenes shells

War Casualties

10 million Soldiers

7 million civilians

20 million wounded

Massive Influenza Spread

Spanish flu that kills around 50 million world wide

Turning Points: 1917

The United States joins the war for many reasons of such as their ethnic identities, economics, propaganda and submarine warfare

Germany Armistice 1918

Germany calls for an armistice officially ending war and people are relived; note this doesn’t mean Germany surrendered just peace agreement

Domestic Impacts of War: Greater power of Executives

shift in power as to who would control the military; assume greater control

Domestic Impacts of War: Rise in Feminism

With WW1 it allowed Women to use it as a stepping stone to lead their movement as they’ve shown they’re just as capable working in factories and doing other roles men usually did

Domestic Impact of War: Boon for Industries & Labor Union

Really accelerated the need fore more industrialization; therefore needed more workers and in result workers started to fight for better conditions and pay

Domestic Impacts of War: Decline of Aristocracy

people began to move away from being born into a wealthy family with land to more families with factories

Domestic Impacts of War: Great Migrations

a huge wave of Black Americans around 500,000 moved up to the North looking for work as more factories began to open

Domestic Impacts of War: Debt, Inflations and Taxes

WW1 was heavily taxing on all nations leading to scarcity on war; thought to have influenced the Great Depression

Domestic Impacts of War: Propaganda

Propaganda had become more wide spread and was used to show people who were the enemies and encouraged young men to enlist in war; origin of Uncle Sam Poster; U.S. is the beacon of freedom & Germany is the Tyrant

Paris Peace Conference (1919)

Nations met together in France to make global agreements; ultimately humiliated Germany to descale their army; Europe created new states (Poland, Austria, Hungary to name a few); League of Nations created by Woodrow Wilson aimed to created peace; Japan shut out of negotiations because Woodrow Wilson was racist; Ho Chi Minh ignored and advocated for Vietnam to be its own nation

Versailles Treaty

A shameful end to a shameful war

Russia’s Place during Paris Peace Conference

Russia was viewed as a global threat due to their Communists and Anti-Imperialists ideologies; refused to honor Russian Treaties or debts; Russia was simply a looming shadow during their Russian Revolution

A Lost Utopia

was the grief many felt after WW1 to hopes of being a powerful century; no longer was this the “perfect world”; our immense progress was used death and science does not make a better world