29.3A GLOBAL CONFLICT

WORLD HISTORYMR. HOOD´S NOTESDECEMBER 2014

MAIN IDEAECONOMICS WORLD WAR I

SPREAD TO SEVERAL CONTINENTS AND REQUIRED THE FULL

RESOURCES OF MANY GOVERNMENTS.

WHY IT MATTERS NOWTHE WAR PROPELLED THE UNITED STATES TO A NEW POSITION OF

INTERNATIONAL POWER, WHICH IT HOLDS TODAY.

INTRODUCTION

WAR DRAGGED ON + SPREAD ACROSS THE

WORLD

EACH SIDE DESPERATE FOR VICTORY, LOOKING TO TAKE

THE ADVANTAGE

OBJECTIVE 1DESCRIBE THE SPREAD

OF THE CONFLICT

MAIN COMBATANTS LOOKED BEYOND EUROPE

TO END WAR

BATTLES STARTED IN AFRICA + ASIA

(COLONIES)

MEANWHILE, ALLIES RECRUITED

TROOPS

MANY FOUGHT FOR THE ALLIES + DIED ON THE

BATTLEFIELD

INCLUDING: INDIA

GANDHI: “SERVICE WOULD LEAD TO INDEPENDENCE”

THEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

JOINS THE FIGHT

GERMANS DECLARED UNRESTRICTED

SUBMARINE WARFARE

GERMANS SANK BRITISH PASSENGER SHIP

“LUSITANIA”

THE LUSITANIA WAS

CARRYING MANY US CITIZENS

GERMANS SANK 3 MORE AMERICAN

SHIPS

FINALLY, USA INTERCEPTED

ZIMMERMAN NOTE

GERMANY INSULTED US

PRESIDENT + INVITED MEXICO TO JOIN CENTRAL POWERS

US PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON DECLARED WAR ON

GERMANY

THE USA JOINED THE ALLIED

FORCES

ALLIES HAD TIPPED THE BALANCE OF

WAR

OBJECTIVE 2IDENTIFY HOW GOVERNMENTS ESTABLISHED

WARTIME ECONOMIES

TOTAL WAR: COUNTRIES DEVOTED

ALL RESOURCES TO WAR

GOVERNMENTS TOLD

FACTORIES WHAT TO PRODUCE

GOODS IN SHORT SUPPLY: COUNTRIES TURNED

TO RATIONING

RATIONING: SMALL AMOUNTS OF GOODS

PER PERSON

GOVERNMENTS ALSO USED PROPAGANDA

PROPAGANDA IS ONE-SIDED

INFORMATION…

…DESIGNED TO PERSUADE, TO KEEP UP MORALE AND SUPPORT

FOR WAR

FINALLY, ROLE OF WOMEN CHANGED: INSTRUMENTAL

DURING THE WAR

OBJECTIVE 3SUMMARIZE THE ALLIES´ PUSH TO

VICTORY

USA HAD TIPPED BALANCE

OF WAR

BUT THEN RUSSIA WITHDREW FROM WAR

COMMUNIST REVOLUTION

ENDED GERMAN-RUSSIAN WAR

RUSSIA GAVE GERMANY VICTORY ON

EASTERN FRONT

RUSSIANS GAVE GERMANS HOPE SENT ALL TROOPS TO

WESTERN FRONT

LAST CHANCE FOR GERMANY

BUT FACED 2 MILLION U.S. TROOPS

CENTRAL POWERS CRUMBLED

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY HAD REVOLUTION

GERMAN SOLDIERS MUTINIED

GERMAN KAISER WILHELM

II STEPPED DOWN

FINALLY AN ARMISTICE

SIGNED

OBJECTIVE 4EXPLAIN THE EFFECTS

OF WAR

NEW KIND OF WAR

ON GLOBAL SCALE

TECHNOLOGY: DEATH + DESTRUCTION

8.5 MILLION DEAD

+ 21 MILLION WOUNDED

GENERATION OF EUROPEANS WIPED

OUT

COST $338 BILLION

INSECURITY AND DESPAIR

LEGACY OF WAR WAS IN VERSAILLES

PROMPTED MAINLY ANGER AND

RESENTMENT

WOULD LEAD DIRECTLY TO ANOTHER WORLD

WAR