TTO 3 Bricks 1.3

• geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Causes of World War I

Exercises

Do exercise 1,3 and 7

Total war

What is a total war?

Find a picture of a total war in WW I

1917 A decisive year

In 1917, two significant events changed the course of the war. 

German U-Boats kept attacking unarmed passenger and merchant ships. In 1915, they torpedoed the British ocean liner ‘The Lusitania’. It sank immediately and 1,200 people lost their lives, among them 128 Americans. This led to massive anti-German sentiment in the United States. Two years later, a letter was intercepted, showing that the Germans tried to make an alliance with Mexico to attack the United States. On 6th April 1917, the United States Congress voted to join the Allies in the war.

Decisive year 1917-1918

-Usa joines the allies 

-Russia ends war with Germany

- In October 1917 communist revolution

- In March1918 peace with Germany. Peach of Brest-Litovsk

-End two front war Germany!! 

End of world war I

• Turningpoint 1: Russian Revolution (1917) --> peace Russia -Germany
• Turningpoint 2: US takes part in war(1917) 
• At 11am on 11th November (‘the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month’), Germany signed an armistice in railway carriage No. 2419D, in Compiègne Forest, close to Paris. The Great War had come to an end. 

De Dolkstootlegende

De Dolkstootlegende is een complottheorie die tussen de beide wereldoorlogen vooral onder de nationalisten en conservatieven in Duitsland leefde, die inhield dat de Eerste Wereldoorlog niet op het slagveld verloren was, maar doordat de linkse revolutionairen het land met hun Novemberrevolutie hadden ondermijnd en vervolgens een (linkse) burgerlijke regering aan de macht hadden gebracht die het bevel aan de legerleiding gaf om de strijd te staken.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolkstootlegende

Exercises

Do exercise 9, 10, 11

Exercises

Do exercise 8