ENGLISH PROPAGANDA DURING WWI

WORK ON PROPAGANDA POSTERS

I- REMINDER: THE CAUSES OF THE 1ST WORLD WAR

II- BRITAIN IN WAR

III- HOW PROPAGANDA POSTERS PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN WORLD WAR I?

I- REMINDER: the causes of the 1st World War

I-1- A divided Europe: → Economic competition between industrial countries to win markets

→ Power competition : colonialism.eg: 2 crisis about Morocco between France and Germany (1905 and 1911)… war was imminent !

→ A strong Franco-German rivalry : France wanted to recover Alsace and Lorraine

Triple Alliance (central powers) was a military alliance among the German Empire, the Austro-

Hungarian Empire, and the kingdom of Italy.

Triple Entente (Allied powers) was the alliance linking the Russian

Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great

Britain

→ OPPOSING FORCES

1915

I-2. Discontentment of minority groups wanting more rights or

independenceEg: In the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Gavrilo Princip: a Serbian, member of a Yugoslav nationalist organisation.

I-3. Summer 1914: WW1 broke out!

He assassinated the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on 28th June 1914.

28th July, 1914: Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

Russia mobilised in support of Serbia

2nd August, 1914: Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and Germany signed a secret treaty of alliance.

3rd August, 1914: Germany declared war on France.

4th August, 1914: Germany invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg (before moving towards France), leading Britain to declare war on Germany.

10th August, 1914: Austria-Hungary invaded Russia.

II- Britain in war

British Highland regiments marching through Boulogne

New York Times, 1919.

Head of the British column near Le Havre

Source : New York Times, 30 Aug 1914

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List the whole vocabulary you need to describe the fighting during WW1