Course of WWI

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Course of WWI
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Course of WWI

• short war illusion
• Schlieffen Plan avoid 2-front war
• western front vs. eastern front
• trench warfare stalemate

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Schlieffen Plan August, 1914
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Schlieffen Plan September, 1914
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Trench Warfare
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Trenches
A British soldier inside a trench.
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Battles to Know

• Marne
• 1st
• trenches
• Somme Verdun
• bloody
• little ground gained

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Why did the US enter the war in 1917?

• Germanys unrestricted submarine warfare
• 1915 sinking of Lusitania
• 1915-1917 halted
• 1917 resumed
• Zimmermann Telegram
• Germany offered Mexico US territory if they
  joined the German cause

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Why was WWI so destructive?

• trench warfare
• new technologies
• tank
• poison gas
• machine gun
• airplane
• submarine

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Verdun Before After
Cloister of the Hotel la Princerie (France)
before and after the battle.
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Tank

• 1916 tank warfare introduced by France/GB
• 1917 France GB used 1500 tanks each

• A German tank.

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Poison Gas
German soldiers wearing gas masks. The Germans
introduced the use of poison gas in warfare in
1915.
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Machine Gun
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Airplane
Below A German airplane.
Above Painting of a British airplane engaged in
combat. The airplane has a machine gun mounted on
its top wing.
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Snoopy, the WWI Flying Ace
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Submarine
A German U-boat, 1910.