hist 1020 the first world war & bolshevik revolution

new status quo in europe shifting balances of power

nature of power change

• IMERIALISM

• INDUSTRIALISM

• NATIONALISM

BRIT DOMMY MOMMY

• old empires fall

GERMANY MAJOR INDUSTRIAL POWER, and germay threatens with their NAVY & ARMY

KEY CONCEPTS

CENTRAL POWERS

ALLIED POWERS

TOTAL WAR

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

BOLSHEVIKS

because of british dominating and growing russian power, germany feels threatened and also because germany is goegraphically penned in. so….form a little group of military alliance….. GIRL SQUAD!!!!!!

ALLIED POWERS

• BRIT

• FRANCE

• RUSSIA

• ITALY

CENTRAL POWERS

• GERMANY

• AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

• OTTOMAN EMPIRE

all the military alliances were secret at first….. central powers and allied powers secretttttttttttt shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

WAR STARTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how??

1914: heir to HABSBURG EMPIRE IS ASSASSINATED!!! WHAT!!!!!

the assassination was an attempt to trigger independence movement! that did not happen no no no

germany declare war

war starts JULY 1914 with AUSTRIAN ATTACKS ON SERBIAN BELGRADE!!!!!

TOTAL WAR

All aspects of society & economy must contribute to war

• INDUSTRIAL

• CONSCRIPTION

• TECH INNOVATION

comes from germany in ww1

tech innovation! in battle

TANKS

• ENGINE! combustion engine wooohooohohoho

• british mark! not the name of a very english man, but the name of the first ever TANK

AIRPLANES

• surveillance

• bombing

• aerial battle

GUNS- first large scale use of MACHINE gunns

POISON GAS!!!!!! OH MY!!!!!!!

ENTRENCHMENT happend because slow defensive struggle no man’s land!

it is what happens when you fight and you end up living in a trench. not ffun becaue of disease… fighting people from inside your little trench

early stalemate (when the two sides wont fight each other) cause 1.1 mil brit french german DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SUH(UIopqb:!pl:gfklm.AKJFVHUN;QROUFGVJGBN/AWOLFUJVHN;/QWOEUGVJHBN/;QLEWJORUFVHNB/Q;ELJVHN/;QEOLUJGFVB

70 MIL fought war

• 15 MIL russians

• 13 MIL germans

• 9 MIL brits

• 8 MIL franc

half of mobilized men DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

at home…. mobilization looked…. a little bit different!!

this war service hit women! women work factory & farming jobs, which led to EXPANSION OF RIGHTS!!!!!!!! women dont need no man to walk in public, women dress SLUTTY!!!!!! SCANTILY!!!!!! and they LIVE ALONE WITHOUT A MAN!!!! and they can vote too or whatever yadayadayada

the ottoman empire & armenian genocide

the ottoman empire joins the CENTRAL POWER, fight BEYOND EUROPE, INTO EGUYPT, IRAQ, ANATOLIA, COUSCOUS!!!!!!!! ottoman joining the war sparks imperial longings

ARMEN GENOCIDE NOOO ARMIN

armenians were accused of being rushian sympathies

so they DIE

okay so when the war happened, the brits and the french were like !! we dont ahve enough people!! lets send people from our colonies to fight.

india: served 1 mil

africa: 1 mil

australia, nz, canada: 1 mil

HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE KILLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10,000,000

• 5,000,000 from GUNFIRE

• 3,000,000 from SMALL ARMS

and bro. there are OSO many chemicals in the soil now. good job

paul nash we are making a new world paul nash !! painting

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

during the war, everything is scarce. this made economy worse.

• FOOD SHORTAGE

• POOR WAGES & HOURS

• 5 MIL KILLED

RIOTS in ST. PETERSBURG causing NICHOLAS II to LEAVE HIS THRONE, which made a government full of unelected officials & SOVIETS!!!!!!!!!!! uh oh spaghettio…

the fall of the romanovs

BOLSHEVIKS

this government of unelected officials hated war, so the BOLSHEVIKS, which were a group of LEFT WING SOCIALISTS, led by TROTSKY & LENIN prommied to END WAR, and let land that was seized by soviets to be kept by soviets!