Total War Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Recruitment Posters

• 12/17 Focus: – One European nation after another was

drawn into the large and industrialized war that resulted in many causalities.

• Important Terms: – Total War, unrestricted submarine

warfare

• Do Now:– Identify four new types of weapons

that were used during WWI?

World War I

Total War Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

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Recruitment Posters

Total War

• A conflict in which the nations at war devote all their resources to to the war effort

Total War

Gov’t drafts men to fight in war

Gov’t raises taxes and borrows $ to

pay for war

Gov’t rations goods at home to devote resources for war

Gov’t uses propaganda to incite

anger towards enemies

Women took jobs left behind by men

going to war

Armenian Genocide

• Ottomans distrusted Armenian minority– Believed they

supported Russia

• Massacred over a million Armenian civilians during the war

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• Britain had setup a naval blockade of Germany – Stopped

Germany from getting military supplies

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• Germany declared the Seas around Britain to be a war zone

• Sunk any ships bringing war supplies to Britain – Germany had sunk

American ships going to Britain

Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

The Lusitania • British Passenger

ship sunk by Germans on May 7, 1915 – 128 Americans killed– Germany claimed the

ship was carrying war supplies and ammunition

• Caused a great deal of anger in America

American Neutrality• United States

tried to remain neutral during the war

• German sinking of American ships contributed to the U.S. entering the war on the Allied side

Points for Discussion

• What does the concept of total war mean?

• How did WWI change the relationship between civilians and war?