Warmup

• What made WWI so deadly?

WWI: Important Battles & Events

Total War

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YpresYpres

SommeSomme

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First Battle of the MarneTimeline: September 1914

2nd Battle of Ypres

TIMELINE: 1915

Verdun - February to June 1916

Battle of the Somme - July 1916

• Aerial Bombardment

• Lack of Surprise• 80% of BEF

advance - 750,000 men

• Caught in No Man’s Land

Caporetto

Caporetto

GallipoliGallipoli

JutlandJutland

TannenbergTannenberg

Tannenberg

Gallipoli

Jutland

Caporetto

Battle of Cambrai

TIMELINE: 1917

• First use of the British secret weapon—the TANK

• First successful penetration of German trenches/line

• Cambrai is in France

On April 2, 1917…

President Woodrow Wilson declared WAR…

THE AMERICANS BEGIN TO GO “OVER THERE”

THEN SOMETHING else HUGE HAPPENS…

TIMELINE: November 1917

• Bolshevik Revolution: communists take over Russia– Led by Vladimir Lenin

• This leads to Russia’s withdrawal from WWI– Treaty of Brest-Litovsk:

peace agreement between Russia & Central Powers

Chateau-ThierryTIMELINE: JUNE

1918

• American Expeditionary Force (A.E.F) led by John J. Pershing

• First fight for the A.E.F in WWI

• Successful in stopping German advance

Second Battle of the MarneTIMELINE: JULY 1918

•Germans last desperate offensive of the war

•HEAVY CASUALTIES–Nearly 262,717 men killed or wounded

•Destroyed the German ability to attack again

Saint-MihielTIMELINE: SeP-Nov 1918

•First mainly A.E.F battle•Biggest A.E.F operation and

victory of WWI•Pushed Germans back to

Armistice line–11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 armistice signed—WWI IS OVER!

In the End

Wilson’s Goal

• Peace without victory

• New world order

• 14 Points – League of Nations

• Leads to Treaty of Versailles

• U.S. Congress rejects - never ratifies