The document discusses the origins and key events of World War 1, including the complex network of alliances that drew the major European powers into war after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in 1914, as well as the devastating human toll of the war and the new military technologies like machine guns, artillery, gas warfare, and tanks that led to mass casualties over four years of brutal trench warfare. The document also examines some of the major battles of the war, such as the Battle of Verdun, and the entry of the United States into the war in 1918.
Overview of trench warfare in WWI with effects it had on the war and the soldiers involved. At the end, it includes an assignment for students to practice writing a "primary" document.
Overview of trench warfare in WWI with effects it had on the war and the soldiers involved. At the end, it includes an assignment for students to practice writing a "primary" document.
This PowerPoint covers: The Events that led to the War being a stalemated war of attrition, new weapons and trench conditions.
GCSE Modern World History B, Causes and Events of the First World War
In this briefing, we take a look at the B-17 before and during World War II. The briefing has been prepared for a ceremony in the Summer of 2013 for a bomber crew shot down over France on July 4, 1943
This PowerPoint covers: The Events that led to the War being a stalemated war of attrition, new weapons and trench conditions.
GCSE Modern World History B, Causes and Events of the First World War
In this briefing, we take a look at the B-17 before and during World War II. The briefing has been prepared for a ceremony in the Summer of 2013 for a bomber crew shot down over France on July 4, 1943
This one is long, but packed to the brim with good stuff. It covers the causes of WWI, the changes in weaponry and tactics (or lack thereof), the strategies and eventual results of The Great War. There's also a few asides on such things as shell shock.
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Family Feud: 3 Cousins of WWI
- all grandsons of
Queen Victoria of Great Britain
King George V of Great Britain
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia
Tsar Nicholas (left)
and
King George V (right)
Odd Man Out: Kaiser Wilhelm
CAUSES
Arms buildup throughout Europe
Personal vendettas:
Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm against his cousins Britain's King George V and Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
Competition for Imperialism
Germany vying for power
Entangling Alliances
Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia
Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Control over Serbia
Nicholas and George's friendship, too, was no match for the shoals of politics. When Nicholas abdicated in 1917, the provisional Russian government asked the British to give the tsar and his family political asylum. The British government initially said yes, but George – who had told Nicholas a few years before, "Remember, you can always count on me as your friend" – was convinced that if his now deeply unpopular cousin came to England, his own position would be threatened. It was the first time his friendship with Nicholas had been genuinely tested; he responded by lobbying energetically for the invitation to be withdrawn, and it was. Whether the imperial family could actually have been spirited out of Russia is unknown, but George's reaction was a negation of all the decades of protestations of family closeness. Nicholas and his family were murdered at Ekaterinburg 18 months later.
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Alliances - 1917
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Turkey
Bulgaria
Russia
France
Great Britain
United States
Central Powers:
Allies:
Italy
MOTIVES
Germany:
Believed that war with Russia was inevitable
Argued it would be better to fight Russia while its army was still poorly armed and untrained, rather than to wait until it could pose a greater threat.
England
Germany built up a naval fleet, with the specific goal of matching Britain on the high seas.
England saw this as a threat to the balance of power in Europe.
MOTIVES, con’t
France:
Had lost the territories of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany
Believed that if Germany were distracted by a war with Russia, France could regain these territories.
Russia:
Motives are less clear-cut
Russian military leaders had strong nationalistic leanings & encouraged Tsar Nicholas II to join the war
A time of great instability in Russia
A military victory would likely help the tsar politically
General Info
Started on July 28, 1914
US entered war in April, 1917
Ended on November 11, 1918
Almost 8,000,000 dead.
Almost 22,000,000 wounded
3 million US men drafted
2 million volunteered
Cost US $32 million
1 million U.S. women entered work force
Map of Europe greatly changed.
Europe on the Eve of World War I, 1914
The Black Hand
The main objective of the Black Hand was the creation of a Greater Serbia, by means of violence.
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This presentation is used to help 9th graders learn the basics of WWI. It covers the causes and methods as well as things like animals in war and propaganda.
2. Read the excerpt and examine the picture on P. 742
and answer these questions:
1. Should you always support a friend, no matter
what he or she does?
2. What might be the risks of refusing to help an ally?
3. What might be the consequences of a war involving
all of Europe?
3. • Started on July 28, 1914
• Ended on November 11, 1918
• Almost 10,000,000 dead.
*** Russia the most = 1.7 million
• Another 20,000,000 wounded…..
•and another 8 million are missing. And
that’s just the military casualties – it
doesn’t include civilians.
• Map of Europe greatly changed.
4.
5.
6. Extreme nationalism – pride in country
Imperialism ---
Militarism – glorifying military power and building
up military
Alliance system - <KEY REASON>
PROBLEM?
One event could drag all countries involved
into a conflict.
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10. Describe the formation of the Triple Alliance by Bismarck.
Otto von Bismarck freely used war to unify Germany.
After 1871 Bismarck declared Germany to be a “satisfied power.”
Saw France as their greatest threat.
In 1879, Bismarck formed the Dual Alliance between Germany and
Austria-Hungary. 3 years later, Italy joined the two
countries, forming the Triple Alliance.
What actions did Wilhelm make to destroy the peace that Bismarck had
created?
1. Lapse of the Treaty between Russia – Russia formed a defensive
military alliance with France in 1892.
2. Competition with British navy.
3. Alarmed, Great Britain began to enlarge its own fleet.
4. Triple Entente – Britain, France, and Russia.
The stage is set for the major conflict. What would set off this amazing
blaze?…..
11. Massive amounts of different ethnic groups with
nationalistic ambitions.
Balkan groups struggle to make their own nations. What
new nations were formed?
Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia.
Describe the conflict between Austria and Serbia/Russia:
1. Serbian nationalism
2. 1908 Austrian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina – these
were two Balkan areas with large slavic populations. Serbian
leaders had sought to rule these provinces were outraged.
A Shot Rings Throughout Europe -
12. The main objective of
the Black Hand was the
creation, by means of
violence, of a Greater
Serbia.
Its stated aim was: "To
realize the national
ideal, the unification of
all Serbs. This
organization prefers
terrorist action to
cultural activities; it will
therefore remain secret."
13. The one event that started the Great War
happened in the Balkans.
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Austria) was
assassinated while visiting Bosnia.
The Black Hand was responsible….
21. Franz’s last words were,
“Sophie dear, don't die! Stay alive
for our children!”
22. • Austria moves to punish Serbia, Russia comes to the aid of
Serbia, and then all those alliances engage as everybody
declares war on everyone else in a tragic domino effect.
23. • Traditional warfare
• Traditional tactics utilized mass infantry formations, where you just
have a lot of foot soldiers lined up or charging together.
• Those classic images of the rows of soldiers lining up and firing at
each other is an example.
• They did this because they used muskets, most of which have
smoothbore barrels and all were relatively slow-firing.
24. Steps for Loading a
Muzzleloader
1. Measure powder charge.
2. Pour measured powder
down barrel.
3. Place patch and ball on
muzzle.
4. Tap ball into barrel with
starter.
5. Take out ramrod.
6. Ram ball down barrel.
7. Be sure ball is
completely seated.
8. Clear vent hole with pick
if necessary.
9. On flintlock
muzzleloader, pour powder
into pan and close frizzen.
10. On percussion lock
muzzleloader, place cap on
nipple.
25. • The introduction of rifled barrels changes this. Rifled barrels
have spirals grooves going down the barrel that put a spin on
the bullet as it exits. This spin stabilizes the bullet in the air
and makes it much more accurate.
26. • Think of the rifling as being like putting a spin on a football.
• The spin makes it fly straight because it stabilizes the ball. Without the
spin, there’s no telling what will happen.
Musket accuracy Rifle accuracy
27. • Bolt action meant that a bolt at the breech could be operated, which ejected the
spent casing and, unless it was single shot, load another cartridge in the process.
• This allowed for much more rapid firing.
32. • WWI also saw the introduction of machine guns.
• These were automatic weapons capable of firing
400-600 rounds per minute of belt-fed ammunition.
Compare that with maybe 12-15 rounds a minute
for the bolt action rifleman.
• The machine guns were big and heavy, though.
They typically weighed anywhere from 70-120
pounds. This meant you tended to have gun
emplacements with a crew operating them.
• The big problem with them is keeping them cool.
Such a high rate of fire produced a lot of heat that
could overheat the barrel. The early varieties used
water cooling systems.
33.
34. There was a water jacket around the barrel connected to a pump to dissipate heart.
They’d still only last about two minutes without fresh cool water. Crews would
sometimes use their own urine if water wasn’t available. This is a British Vickers.
41. French 274mm gun. WWI gun used by the Germans in WWII and captured by the
Americans.
42. • The big one was the Germans’ Paris gun, so called because they used to shell
Paris… from 75 miles away.
43. • It was capable of firing
a 210 lb shell 81 miles
(that was after it could
reach an altitude of 25
miles).
• The shell would take
nearly three minutes to
hit its target and the
rotation of the earth
had to be taken into
account when
calculating its aiming
trajectory.
44. • Most artillery pieces were, of course, much smaller and some were mobile.
They were used to great effect during the war. It’s estimated that nearly 32
million shells were fired in the Battle of Verdun alone.
45. • It was during WWI that the term “shell
shock” was coined. Most modern memoirs
describe that the most unnerving
maddening thing in battle is artillery
detonations.
46. • And finally, chemical weapons get experimented
with.
• Tear gas gets used first and then it escalates to
chlorine gas, which produces a greenish cloud
that very quickly destroys lung tissue as the
soldier dies choking, vomiting, and in general
agony.
• It was deadly if inhaled, but easy to
counteract by either getting to higher
ground or just covering the mouth with a
damp rag. And it was easy to see coming.
47. • Next used is phosgene, a chlorine hybrid gas. It wasn’t as
obvious as normal chlorine and didn’t cause the initial
choking, meaning more gas would be inhaled and it was
therefore deadlier. It was also more difficult to protect
against than chlorine.
• It could take 24 hours for symptom onset, though.
48. • The big one was mustard gas, which is a mustard
color and smells mustardy (when mixed with other
stuff), but it isn’t related to ordinary mustard. It
causes blistering of the skin and the interior of the
lungs as well as blindness.
• It could penetrate clothing.
49. • Mustard gas produces blistering on any
skin it touches within 4-24 hours of
exposure. It strips away the mucous
membranes causing a great choking pain.
• Eyes become red and swollen and may go
blind.
• It was actually fatal in only about 1% of
cases, but it was completely
incapacitating. Defense against it was
hard too since it could saturate clothing,
the ground, and be absorbed through the
skin.
• Recovery could take one or two months.
50. • Gases were typically “administered” either through opening up gas cylinders or
through artillery shells.
59. “You will be
home before
the leaves
have fallen
from the
trees!!”
60.
61.
62.
63. the longest and one of the bloodiest engagements
of World War I. February 1916 – December 1916
Two million men were engaged.
The intention of the Germans had been a battle of
attrition in which they hoped to bleed the French
army white.
In the end, they sustained almost as many
casualties as the French; an estimated 328,000 to the
French 348,000.
76. First war to be fought on 3 continents.
First industrialized conflict.
First use of chlorine & mustard gas.
First use of the flame thrower.
First tank battle.
First use of mass airplanes.
First use of x-ray in the military.
First use of a blood bank.
First use of guide dogs by blinded soldiers.
First four-star general, General John J. Pershing
First use of trillion in estimating war costs.
First commissioning of war art for propaganda.
First use of the IQ Test given to Doughboys of 1917.
First U.S. president to visit a European country while in office was Woodrow
Wilson on 12/04/18.
77.
Over the Top, Trench Coat, Ace, Buddy, Pushing
up the Daisies, Red Tape, Zoom, Sniper, Washout,
Cootie,
Tune Up, Zero Hour, Busted, Ticked Off,
Put a Sock in it, Hit the Deck, Washout, Rookie,
Coffin nail, Fed Up, Rise & Shine, Pipe down, Mess
up, Get knocked off, Hike, Gadget,
Kick the Bucket, Rank & File, Chow Down, Cushy,
Scrounge, Humdinger, Basket Case