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THE SCHLIEFFEN PLAN

A GERMAN WAR TACTIC THAT CALLED FOR A
FAST STRIKE AGAINST FRANCE AND THEN A
STRIKE ON RUSSIA BY ALL GERMAN FORCES

THE PLAN WAS FOR GERMANY TO TAKE

FRANCE BEFORE THE ENGLISH COULD JOIN
ALLIED FORCES

8 GERMAN ARMIES ATTACKED FRANCE

AFTER PUSHING THROUGH BELGIUM

THE RESULT WAS THE WESTERN FRONT OF

THE WAR BEING STUCK IN TRENCH
WARFARE FOR 3 YEARS

THE WESTERN FRONT

SCHLIEFFEN PLAN FAILED
BOTH SIDES WANTED A QUICK VICTORY NOPE!
TRENCHES WERE BUILT THAT STRETCHED
THROUGH FRANCE, THEY WERE REINFORCED
WITH BARBED WIRE

AREA BETWEEN TRENCHES = NO MANS LAND

THE EASTERN FRONT

NOT ANY EASIER THAN THE WESTERN FRONT
RUSSIA WAS LOSING
TURKEY JOINED GERMANY
THIS CUT OFF SUPPLIES AND ARMS EQUIPMENT
TO RUSSIA

RUSSIA, THE BOLSHEVIKS, & LENIN

OCTOBER REVOLUTION DESTROYED THE
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT THAT REPLACED
THE TSAR

BOLSHEVIKS UNDER VLADIMIR LENIN SEIZED

POWER SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC

TREATY OF BREST-LITOVSK WAS SIGNED

LENIN PULLED RUSSIA OUT OF THE WAR
HOSTILITY BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GERMANY
ENDED

Vladimir
Lenin

Russian Communist
Revolutionary
Russia Soviet
Union
One Party Socialist
state
Land, resources,
and industry were
taken and
nationalized
Leader of Soviet
Union from 19171922 (his death)

MORE RUSSIA
1915-1916
THE EASTERN FRONT
HUGE LOSSES BOTH SIDES
GERMANS BEGIN TO CONQUER EASTERN EUROPE
RUSSIANS POOR LEADERSHIP AND BADLY EQUIPPED
THESE CONDITIONS HELP US MAKE SENSE OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION IN
1917 AND RUSSIA LEAVING THE WAR

THE TREATY OF BREST-LITOVSK

SIGNED IN MARCH 1918
BETWEEN BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA (USSR) AND
THE VENTRAL POWERS (GERMANY,
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, BULGARIA, & TURKEY)

AFTER THIS RUSSIAS PARTICIPATION IN

THE WAR ENDS

BUT: THE USA ENTERS IN 1917

THE U.S.A.

THE
U.S.A.
1917 WAS THE U.S. TURNING POINT
LUISITANIA WAS SUNK BY THE GERMANS AND THE U.S. USED
THIS AS JUSTIFICATION FOR DECLARING WAR

IN REALITY THE U.S. WANTED TO JOIN THE WAR BECAUSE OF A

1917 PROPOSAL FROM GERMANY FOR MEXICO TO JOIN THE
CENTRAL POWERS

THE PROPOSAL WAS INTERCEPTED BY BRITISH INTELLIGENCE

CONTENTS HELPED GAIN SUPPORT FOR A WAR AGAINST
GERMANY

MORE U.S.A. IN 1917

FEBRUARY: GERMANS USE UNRESTRICTED

SUBMARINE WARFARE

THE GERMANS USED THIS TECHNIQUE IN THE

BLOCKADE OF GREAT BRITAIN VERY
SUCCESSFUL

UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE

WHAT IS IT?
UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE IS A NAVAL WAR TACTIC IN WHICH
SUBMARINES ARE USED TO SINK FREIGHTERS AND/OR TANKERS AND THEY
DO SO WITHOUT WARNING

DIFFERENT FROM PRIZE RULES

SAFE PLACE

SUBMARINE WARFARE CIVILIANS IN A

MORE U.S.A.
APRIL 6 : USA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY
BLOCKADE ON GREAT BRITAIN IS BROKEN
UNITED STATES ENTERS THE WAR WITH FULL FORCE
AMERICAN SUPPLIES AND SOLDIERS ENTER EUROPE
TH

THE U.S.A: IN THE END

1918: WOODROW WILSONS 14 POINTS
THE CONDENSED VERSION:
1. IMPROVE TRADE
2. FREEDOM OF THE SEAS
3. AN END TO SECRET DIPLOMACY
4. TERRITORIAL SETTLEMENTS ACCORDING TO ETHNIC IDENTITIES
5. NATIONAL BOUNDARIES ACCORDING TO ETHNIC IDENTITIES
6. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS COLLECTIVE SECURITY VS. SECRET ALLIANCES
THESE POINTS WERE NOT ADOPTED TREATY OF
VERSAILLES SET TERMS FOR GERMAN SURRENDER

14 POINTS ACTIVITY
IN GROUPS OF 3-4, YOU ARE GOING TO BE GOING OVER ONE OF WOODROW
WILSONS 14 POINTS FROM THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. YOU WILL
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS IN YOUR GROUP AND BE PREPARED TO
SHARE WITH THE CLASS.

THE END