Great War

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Great War
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
HELLFIRE CORNER
JACK TURNERS WAR
LA GRANDE GUERRE
SPARTACUS EDUCATION WWI
AVIATION PICTORIAL GREAT
WAR SOCIETY
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THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918
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EUROPE, 1914
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BALKANS, 1914
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ROYAL RULERS OF EUROPE
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Emperor Franz Joseph
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George V
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William II
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Nicholas II and George V
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THE SPARK
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Franz Ferdinand, Sophia and children
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Serbian Premier Pasic
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Princip
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Capture of Princip
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COMMANDERS
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George V and His Generals
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General French
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General Haig
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General Allenby
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General Foch
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Marshall Petain
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General Joffre
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British recruiting
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If I should die, think only this of me. That
theres some corner of a foreign field That is
forever England. There shall be In that rich
earth a richer dust concealed A dust whom
England bore, shaped, made aware Gave, once,
her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of
Englands breathing English air, Washed by the
rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this
heart,all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal
mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts
by England given Her sights and sounds dreams
happy as her day And laughter, learnt of
friends and gentleness, In hearts at peace,
under an English heaven. Rupert
Brooke, 1887-1915
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THE WESTERN FRONT
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NO MANS LAND
Beginning of the trenches
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Trenches From air
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Dead on the wire
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No Mans land
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No Mans land
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No Mans land
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View of the front
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End of Line, North Sea
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Gun crew
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Ypres
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the
crosses, row on row, That mark our place and in
the sky The larks, still bravely singing,
fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the
Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw
sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we
lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with
the foe To you from failing hand we throw The
torch be yours to hold it high. If ye break
faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though
poppies grow In Flanders fields. John McCrae
(1872-1918)
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French dead
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Verdun, at beginning of Battle
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French troops awaiting order to advance
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Verdun, 1916
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Verdun
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Verdun
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Verdun
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Verdun
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Verdun
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French trench
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German and French dead
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German dead , Verdun
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German dead
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Before and after-Verdon
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Before and After
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Amiens
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Crater at beginning of Somme caused by 27 tons of
explosive
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Six days before the attack 1.6 million shells
fired at Germans July 1, the British set off 2
mines containing 200,000lbs. Of Explosives under
the German lines, the explosions were heard In
London. Here have the Pals or Chums
Regiments. Sir Henry Rawlinson wasso sure the
Germans could not respond That he sent troops
over in parade formation Germans had survived the
artillery and their barbed wire entangled The
British so that German machine guns massacred the
British. First Day the British lost 19,240 dead
35,494 wounded 2,152 missing57,470 casualties
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Good-morning good-morning! the General
said When we met him last week on our way to the
line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of
em dead, And were cursing his staff for
incompetent swine. Hes a cheery old card,
grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up to Arras
with rifle and pack. But he did for them both
by his plan of attack. Siegfried Sassoon
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German troops near Bapaume , Battle of Somme
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Watching the Battle of the Somme
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Dead on the Somme
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British Dead
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. First Day the British lost 19,240 dead 35,494
wounded 2,152 missing57,470 casualties Haig
halted the battle in Nov. The Allies gained 125
sq. miles At cost of 400,000 British and
200,000French casualties. Germans lost 450,000
casualties.
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LIFE IN THE TRENCHES
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delousing
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. The men who were not getting in a bit of extra
sleep sat about talking and smoking, writing
letters home, cleaning their rifles, running
their thumb-nails up the seams of their shirts to
kill the lice, gambling. Lice were a standing
joke. Young Bumford handed me one like this. 'We
was just having an argument as to whether it was
best to kill the old ones or the young ones, sir.
Morgan here says that if you kill the old ones,
the young ones will die of grief, but Parry here,
sir, he says that the young ones are easier to
kill and you can catch the old ones when they
come to the funeral. Robert Graves Goodbye to
all That
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NEW WEAPONS OF WAR
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Gas shells
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French Troops, Gas attack
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Bent double like old beggars under
sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed
through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we
turned our backs And towards our distant rest
began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had
lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All
went lame all blind Drunk with fatigue deaf
even to the hoots Of tired, outstripped
Five-Nines that dropped behind. Gas!Gas! Quick,
boys! An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy
helmets just in time But some still was yelling
out and stumbling And floudring like a man in
fire or lime Dim, through the misty panes and
thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw
him drowning.
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In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He
plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If
in some smothering dreams you too could
pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And
watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His
hanging face, like a devils sick of sin If you
could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come
gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene
as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable
sores on innocent tongues,-- My friend, you would
not tell with such high zest To children ardent
for some desperate glory, The old Lie Dulce et
decorum est Pro patria mori. Wilfred Owen
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Battle of Ypres 1915 first use of poison gas by
Germans April 22 1915 Germans used chlorine gas,
a 5mile wide cloud 520 cylinders(168 tons of the
chemical) Sept. 25, 1915 British released
chlorine gas against the Germans. Lachrymator
(tearing agent)tear gas, mace, temporary
blindness gas mask was good protection Asphyxia
nt(poisonous gas) chlorine, phosgene,
diphosgene Blistering Agent mustard gas
attacked any exposed moist skineyes Lungs,
armpits, groin gas mask not effective, oily
agent would hang Low areas for hours. 1918 1 of
4 artillery shells fired contained gas of some
type
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Mustard gas victim
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Sopwith pup
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Fokker testing gear
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Love Field, Dallas
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bomber
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American aces
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Billy Mitchell
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Red Baron, von Richtofen
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Goering
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Flame thrower
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THE WAR AT SEA
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The British established a blockade against German
ports. The Germans declared the waters
around the British Isles To be a war zone.
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German submarines
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German submarine
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British ships
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German High Seas fleet
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Admiral Beatty
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Admiral Jellicoe
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Admiral Tripitz
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Admiral von Hipper, commander of scouting forces
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Admiral Von Scheer, Commander of High Seas Fleet
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JUTLAND
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HMS Indefatigable sunk at Jutland
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German ship sunk at Jutland
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Rescuing seamen
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Ambassador Zimmerman
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Nicholas II and son
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The Great War in Numbers

• Still unexploded mine shaft at Messines
• German armies invaded France 1914
• 12 Air aces all nations with more than 50 planes
  downed
• Range in yard of German flame thrower
• 55 French mutineers executed
• 1000 daily ave. caloric intake of Germ. Civilians
  Jan.1918
• 2,600 allied ships sunk by German U-Boats
• 529,808 British/commonwealth killed,not known nor
  found
• 584,996 British/commonwealth killed, known
  ,buried
• 1,200,000 Austrian military killed
• 1,385,000 French military killed
• 1,700,000 Russian military killed
• 1,808,000 German military killed
• 7,000,000 combatant maimed for life
• 8,300,000 combatants killed all nations
• 19,536,000 estimated wounded soldiers all nations

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Numbers Mobilized Percentage of Casualties
Great Britain 8,904,467
35.8 France
8,410,000
73.3 Russia 12,000,000
76.3 Italy
5.615,000
39.1 United States 4,355,000
8.4 Austria
7,800,000
90.0 Germany 11,000,000
64.9 Turkey
2,850,000
34.2 TOTAL 65,038,810
57.7
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V. Orlando
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David Lloyd George
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Clemenceau
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Woodrow Wilson
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