Slide 1Slide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5THE FIRST WORLD WARTHE CRISIS BUILDS New Enemies Germany Austria-Hungary France Great BritainTHE FIRST WORLD WAR New FriendsKAISER WILHEM IIEMPEROR FRANZ JOSEFTHE SPARK Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, June 28, 1914 Germans back Austrians with “blank check” Austrians issue ultimatum July 28 THE FIRST WORLD WARGAVRILO PRINCIPTHE RUSSIAN ARMY AND THE WAR Russian Army plagued with problems unable to mobilize vast manpower suffer supply problems inefficiency & corruption poor leadership insufficient medical care German military superiorityTHE FIRST WORLD WARTHE HOME FRONT War causes much suffering entire country mobilized patriotism limited & waning scarcities of necessities mass inflation strikes and protests further loss of confidence in tsarist govt.THE FIRST WORLD WARTsar & Grand Duke Nikolai NikolaevichGrigorii RasputinFemale
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