加拿大与第一次世界大战6.pptVIP

To wage a war successfully, a country needs the support of its people Propaganda is a technique for influencing people’s minds and shaping public opinion. More than any earlier war, the news media were used to spread propaganda to win WWI. Newspapers, magazines, telegraphs, cable and early radio. It encouraged citizens to enlist in military service and work for the war effort. PROPAGANDA Propaganda PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA PROPAGANDA Sometimes men who did not volunteer for the army were considered cowards. Some received white feathers, symbols of cowardice, in the mail. PROPAGANDA Last 100 days Germany decided to launch an offensive on the Western Front before the USA arrived. Canadian allied troops launched a counter attack US tanks arrived and Germany fell back Eventually the Allies recaptured all of France and Belgium On the 11th month, 11th day, 11th hour (Nov. 11th, 1918), there was an armistice (temporary agreement to stop fighting. Germany formally surrendered Stats More than 30 nations 8 million deaths 24 million wounded, gasses, blinded, crippled or paralyzed At one point the war cost $10 million an hour By 1918, the total war cost was $186 Billion! Versailles Peace Treaty Big Four = Woodrow Wilson (USA); George Clemenceau (France); David Lloyd George (England); Vitoria Orlando (Italy) Wilson proposed a 14 point plan to bring peace and future security to the nations of the world. These were high goals – too high to be acceptable to most nations The Big Four did not consult the defeated countries. Versailles The central powers found it extremely difficult to accept the terms of this treaty. The Germans did not want to give back to France the province of Alsace-Lorraine The treaty blamed Germany for starting the war and ordered it to make reparations, or payments for war damages, to the countries it had fought. Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire lost large parts of their former land areas. National groups in the former Austria-Hungary E