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Good Morning!. NVC Turning Points of WWI Essential Question : How did WWI finally come to an end? Homework : RESEARCH PROJECT DUE BLOCK DAY. A Bloody Stalemate. Western Front Campaign in France/Belgium Result of failure of Schlieffen Plan “A living Hell”
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Good Morning! • NVC • Turning Points of WWI Essential Question: How did WWI finally come to an end? Homework: RESEARCH PROJECT DUE BLOCK DAY
A Bloody Stalemate • Western Front • Campaign in France/Belgium • Result of failure of Schlieffen Plan • “A living Hell” • No side ever advanced more than 6 miles • Battle of Verdun: lasts 10 months • Battle of Ypres: 6,000 French killed by poison gas in only 10 minutes
Russia Struggles • Eastern Front • Russia/Middle East • Russia struggling • Not yet industrialized • Short on food, weapons, uniforms • GIANT ARMY • Battle of Gallipoli • Allies need to defeat Ottoman Empire to keep Russia in the war • Open up access to Russia through the Black Sea • Plan Fails
The Final Push • March 1917 Shortages on food and fuel due to war lead to REVOLUTION in Russia • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Russia makes peace with Germany and withdraws from WWI • Spring Offensive • Germany redirects all troops to Western Front • Massive attack on France • Germans on the verge of victory • April 1917 U.S. enters war • 2 million fresh troops
U.S. Entry into WWI • 1914-1917 U.S. is Isolationist under President Woodrow Wilson • Isolationism: no political alliances or involvement in other countries • Unrestricted Submarine Warfare • Germans sinking American ships in the Atlantic Ocean • Zimmerman Telegram • a German attempt to ally with Mexico against the United States • Social/Economic ties with Britain • Shared Anglo-Saxon culture and strong economic ties
War’s End • Second Battle of the Marne(1918): British, French, and Americans stop German Spring Offensive • "I never saw men charge to their death with finer spirit.“ • Hundred Days Offensive: Britain, France, and America counterattack the Germans • Germany surrenders within one hundred days