Long Nineteenth Century1789-1914

Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991

• 1914-1945 "European Civil War"
• 1945-1991 Cold War/Prosperity

WORLD WAR I

GERMANY

Bismarck

• No War on Two Fronts

WILLIAM II

• Weltpolitik

GREAT BRITAIN

• Boer War
  • Diplomatic Isolation
• Naval Arms Race
  • Dreadnoughts

ALLIANCE SYSTEM

TRIPLE ALLIANCE

• Germany
• Austro-Hungarian Empire
• Italy

TRIPLE ENTENTE

• France
• Russia
• Britain?

AUSTRIA VS SERBIA

• Franz Ferdinand--assassinated June 28 1914
• Russian Mobilization
• German Declaration of War
• August 1914
• German Attack on France
  • Schlieffen Plan
  • Belgium (Britain)
  • Military Atrocities..why?

SEPTEMBER 1914

• Battle of the Marne
• Trench Warfare
• Machine Gun
• Total War
  • Economic Mobilization
  • Citizen Willingness to Die
  • Citizen Willingness to Believe the Government

WAR AIMS?

• Germany: overwhelming force
• France: self-defense
• Russia and Britain?
• Battle of the Somme 1916
• War Poets
• Rupert Brooke
• War Sonnets

Chronology of War link

Russian Revolution 1917

American Entry 1917

• German Submarine Warfare in Atlantic
• "War to End All Wars"
• Woodrow Wilson
• Domestic Repression: Eugene Debs running for President, 1920.

 German Surge of 1918. Why?

 German Revolution, October 1918

• Kiel Sailors and Workers Mutiny November 1918
  • Memorial

Armistice Day, November 11,1918

Stab in the Back?

Cost of War

Paris Conference 1919

Treaty of Versailles