World War I: Europe at War and America Joins Forces DO NOW What is your breaking point! Is there a point where you would have no choice but to strike back against an enemy? What is the scenario for that to happen to you? Learning Targets and Intentions of the Lesson I Want Students to: 1. KNOW the characteristics, the propaganda, and key events of Europe at War. 2. UNDERSTAND and describe the events that forced the United States to declare War on Germany. 3. Read and analyze (SKILL) the Zimmerman Note and the Sinking of the Lusitania, respond to questions, and complete an America at War guided reading assignment. The Schlieffen Plan German Atrocities in Belgium Recruitment Posters Soldiers Mobilized

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0 France Germany Russia Britain Russian Women Soldiers Women and the War Effort Financing the War For Recruitment Munitions Workers French Women Factory Workers German Women Factory Workers Working in the Fields A Woman Ambulance Driver Red Cross Nurses Women in the Army Auxiliary Posters:

Wartime Propaganda Australian Poster American Poster Financing the War German Poster The Western Front:

A “War of Attrition” Sacrifices in War A Multi-Front War Verdun – February, 1916

German offensive. Each side had 500,000 casualties. The Somme – July, 1916

60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun America Joins the Allies The Sinking of the Lusitania The Zimmerman Telegram The Yanks Are Coming! Americans in the Trenches 1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies

50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died 11 a.m., November 11, 1918 9,000,000 Dead The Somme American Cemetary, France

116,516 Americans Died World War I Casualties

10,000,000 9,000,000 Russia 8,000,000 Germany 7,000,000 Austria-Hungary 6,000,000 France 5,000,000 4,000,000 Great Britain 3,000,000 Italy 2,000,000 Turkey 1,000,000 US 0 Turkish Genocide Against Armenians

A Portent of Future Horrors to Come! Turkish Genocide Against Armenians

Districts & Vilayets of Western 1914 1922 Armenia in Turkey Erzerum 215,000 1,500 Van 197,000 500 Kharbert 204,000 35,000 Diarbekir 124,000 3,000 Bitlis 220,000 56,000 Sivas 225,000 16,800

Other Armenian-populated Sites in Turkey Western Anatolia 371,800 27,000 Cilicia and Northern Syria 309,000 70,000 European Turkey 194,000 163,000 Trapizond District 73,390 15,000 Total 2,133,190 387,800