PPT-Ch. 29: The Great War

Sec 1 Marching Toward War Background By 1900 most of Europe had been at peace for nearly 30 years Many peace organizations were active and some Europeans believed that the progress gained had made war a thing of the past But beneath all of the goodwill tensions were rising. James, Kali, and Allison. Memorial . day for the war dead. Add now the grief of all your losses to their grief, even of a woman that has left you. Mix sorrow with sorrow, like time-saving history, which stacks holiday and sacrifice and mourning on one day for easy, convenient memory. Oh, sweet world soaked, like bread, in sweet milk for the terrible toothless God. "Behind all this some great happiness is hiding." No use to weep inside and to scream outside. Behind all this perhaps some great happiness is hiding. Memorial day. Bitter salt is dressed up as a little girl with flowers. The streets are cordoned off with ropes, for the marching together of the living and the dead. Children with a grief not their own march slowly, like stepping over broken glass. The flautist's mouth will stay like that for many days. A dead soldier swims above little heads with the swimming movements of the dead, with the ancient error the dead have about the place of the living water. A flag loses contact with reality and flies off. A . 18 AugGreat-great-granddaughter-in-lawDebrah A. EastmanGreat-great-great-granddaughterRichard SmithJeremy Beattie SmithGreat-great-great-great-grandsonDiane L. Eastman Great-great-great-great-granddau Rim B. Abdullin. International Academy of Business . Almaty. Kazakhstan. Structure. Introduction. Neo-Realism theory. Shanghai Cooperation Organization – China and . Russia: Union . for . cooperation. The Romanovs. The . Russian Revolution . in 1917 ends their participation in the Great War.. End of the Russian Empire and the birth of Communist Russia…. The Soviet Union. US Response. The United States Remained . Memory of WW1. The origin of ‘modern memory’ . Shell-shock, trauma: individual and collective . 9 million casualties . Britain: 750.000 + 230.000 (Spanish flu) . H.H. Asquith (PM); Kipling; A. A. Milne, Hugh . 27. Previously. The AD-AS model is a simplified view of the economy that helps us evaluate short-term fluctuations in real GDP and unemployment. The AD-AS model helps us understand the macroeconomic impacts of real-world changes and gives us an important tool to use in government policy analysis. Lets keep this final push up!. The Great War:. Stalemate 1914-1917. Outdated battle strategy, especially, by the French made the war very bloody. Believed spirit would win the battle . Germany was on the brink of winning the war at the very start . R. - REDEEMING. GREAT GRACE. A- ABUNDANT. GREAT GRACE. C- COMFORTING. GREAT GRACE. E- EVERLASTING. GREAT . G . - Great. R . - Redeeming. A . - Abundant. C . - Comforting. E. . - Everlasting. the Americans did have just cause for a war with the British. War of 1812. The Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) . British adopted policies that angered the Americans. Napoleon ordered a blockade (the Berlin Decree) to cripple British trade by closing French controlled ports to British ships.. Upheaval. (The War TO END ALL WARS!!! Boy, did they have that wrong). 2. Immediate Origins of World War I. June 28, 1914 Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand (1863-1914). Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. It was a global military conflict that took place mainly in Europe between 1914 & 1918.. It was a . total war. which left great devastation, millions dead and shaped the modern world.. World War I created a decisive break with the old world order that had emerged after the Napoleonic Wars. The results of World War I would be important factors in the development of World War II; 21 years later. The Great War: World War I. The War to End All Wars. “. The lamps have gone out all over Europe and we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.. ”. . - British Prime Minister Lord Grey. Traditional European . M – . Militarism. : Fascination with war and a strong military. A – . Alliances. : Agreements among varying nations to help each other out. I – . Imperialism. : Building empires and competition for markets. Nearly constant shells falling was the biggest cause of death. New or young soldiers would often die because of the urge to look over the edge of the trench or parapet. Snipers were a great danger as well.