WORLD WAR I
Britain declared war on
Germany 1914
outbreak of the wa
conducting the war
Very high death rates
The Ware ended 1918
• Almost 8,000,000 people died.
• Almost 22,000 were wounded.
• The war was known as ‘the war to end all wars’.
The domino effect
• The Germans attacked France through Belgium.
The French counter-attacked
The Russian’s rapid mobilisation surprised the Germans
Stagnation and trench warfare
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Verdun
Technology superior to tactics
Machine guns And = poison gas, airplanes
wider involvement
War at sea initiated US involvement
the end of war
Versailles Peace Treaty signed
Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
in English painting
Paul Nash
recorded the battlefields of World War I
A cultural crisis
disillusioned and cynical mood
Stability and prosperity, privileged class
atrocities of the war
The gap between the younger and older generation