- The document discusses the start of World War 1 and the tensions between Germany and Britain leading up to it, with a quote from Kaiser Wilhelm II denying suspicions against Germany. - It then covers some of the major changes in warfare that occurred during WWI, including the rise of trench warfare, use of artillery, cavalry becoming obsolete, infantry evolving, and the introduction of poison gas, tanks, and air power. - Two war poems are analyzed, one reflecting patriotism for England and the other graphically depicting the horrors of a gas attack. - Key events that brought the US into the war are summarized, including the Zimmermann Telegram sent from Germany to Mexico proposing an alliance against the US.

1. The Great War

2. Germany

4. “ You English are like mad bulls; you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, that you should heap on such suspicion? What can I do more? I have always stood up as a friend of England” - Kaiser Wilhelm II, speaking in an interview with the Daily Telegraph in 1908. The Kaiser liked England and had friends there. He was cousin of King George V of Britain

5. The Dreadnought

10. The War Begins

11. The Mood

13. The Western Front

14. Analyze a War Poem #1 The Soldier Rupert Brooke If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever 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 England's, 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

15. 8 Changes in War

16. Change 1: Trench Warfare

18. Change 2: Artillery

19. Change 3: Cavalry

20. Change 4: Infantry

21. Change 5: Poison Gas

22. Analyze a War Poem #2 Dulce Et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen

23. 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 disappointed shells that dropped behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out and stumbling And floundering 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. 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 devil's 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.

24. Change 6: Tanks

25. Change 7: Aviation

26. Airships

27. Hindenberg

29. Airplanes

30. Baron Von Richthofen (Red Baron) 80 Kills Rene Fonck 75 Kills

31. Change 8: Total Warfare

33. U-Boat Campaign

35. The U.S. Enters the War *Zimmermann Telegram

36. The Zimmermann Telegram Decoded To the German Minister to Mexico Berlin, January 19, 1917 On the first of February we intend to begin submarine warfare unrestricted. In spite of this, it is our intention to endeavor to keep neutral the United States of America. If this attempt is not successful, we propose an alliance on the following basis with Mexico: That we shall make war together and together make peace. We shall give general financial support, and it is understood that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. The details are left to you for settlement... You are instructed to inform the President of Mexico of the above in the greatest confidence as soon as it is certain that there will be an outbreak of war with the United States and suggest that the President of Mexico, on his own initiative, should communicate with Japan suggesting adherence at once to this plan; at the same time, offer to mediate between Germany and Japan. Please call to the attention of the President of Mexico that the employment of ruthless submarine warfare now promises to compel England to make peace in a few months. Zimmermann (Secretary of State)

38. Russian Revolution

39. The 100 Days: The Stalemate is Broken

40. November 11, 1918 Cease fire THE GREAT WAR IS OVER!!