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• 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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France Germany Russia Britain
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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?