Cultural Heritage II

World War One

World War I (1914-1918)

Kaiser Wilhelm II (1888-1918)

Alliance System and its liabilities

Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898)

Women’s Rights Movement in England, Sylvia Pankhurst

Jean Jaurès (1859-1914, assassinated)

Austria-Hungary and Serbian Nationalism

Russia, Czar Nicolas II, Rasputin, Hemophilia, Royal Families of Europe

Role of the Arts/Anticipation of War

Archduke Francis Ferdinand (assassinated in 1914), Gavrilo Princep and the Black Hand

Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire

Triple Entente: Great Britain, France, and Russia. (U.S. enters war in 1917).

Discussion?: What do you remember about WWI without even having to study it? Is there anything left of it in our culture? (Remember Snoopy as the WWI flying ace?) What else?

Is there anything that you think caused the war that was not mentioned? Was it the last gasp of the dying aristocratic order—what about the first great industrial war (all that excess capital looking for a place to be spent?)

Why World War I?

Politics:

Geography:

Economics:

Sociology:

Philosophy:

Science:

Technology:

Art and Literature:

Mechanized War/Total War

Hague Convention (1907):

Trench Warfare/War of Attrition:

The Great Disillusionment:

Propaganda

Otto Dix (1891-1969):

Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970), All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Wilfred Owen (1893-1919)

“The Men with Broken Faces”

Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles (1919), Woodrow Wilson

League of Nations (“War to end all wars”)

Women’s Suffrage (1919):

Influenza Epidemic of 1918

Russia:

Communist Revolution (1917)

Execution of Czar Nicholas II and family

Vladimir Lenin

Cold War later

Germany:

Hyperinflation, Starvation

Desire for Vengeance (“Stab in the Back”)

Rise of Hitler

Nihilism

United States:

Isolationism

The West: end of “progress,” seeds of WWII.