4. Germany’s Plan
• Called the Schlieffen Plan
– Attack Paris first, then concentrate on Russia
– Go through neutral Belgium to get to France
– Belgium refused
– Germany went anyway
– This brought Britain into the war on the side of
the Allies
5.
6. Stalemate
• The loss of large numbers of troops without
major gains on either side
• Resulted in trench warfare
7. New weapons and equipment for WWI
• British developed the tank
21. Paris Peace Conference
• Wrote the Treaty of Versailles which ended
the war
– Germany was blamed for the war
– Had to pay reparations (payment for damages) to
France and Britain
– Germany had it’s military drastically cut
22. Cost of War
• 10,000,000 men died in battle
• 26,000,000 were wounded or missing in
action
• 10,000,000 civilian deaths
• About 15,000 people died for each day of the
war
• $350,000,000,000 in damages
Editor's Notes
Extended from the English Channel to the border of Switzerland
The gas harmed the nose, throat and lungs…made whole armies temporarily helpless in the face of enemy attacks
Called mustard gas
Most feared and common gas on the battlefield
Gas mask was developed
The machine gun also invented…machine guns were synchronized with the airplane’s propellers…before this, pilots could not fire their guns without shooting their own propellers
