The document summarizes key aspects of World War 1 including the use of new weapons and technologies, major battles on the Western and other fronts, countries that joined the war, and casualties. It provides images related to trench warfare, new machines of war like tanks and airplanes, soldiers from various countries and colonies, and art inspired by the war. In the end, it lists the enormous death toll and outlines the Armenian genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire.

1. The Western Front

2. Trench Warfare

3. New weapons in the War
• Machine Guns
• Barbed wire
• Poison gas
• Tanks
• Submarines
• airplanes

4. Trench Warfare
“No Man’s
Land”

5. Verdun – February, 1916
y German offensive.
. Each side had 500,000 casualties.

6. The Somme – July, 1916
, 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day.
o Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.

7. War Is H E L L
!!

8. Sacrifices in War

9. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

10. Th e
E as te rn
F ront

11. The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915

12. Turkish Cavalry in Palestine

13. T. E. Lawrence
& the “Arab Revolt”, 1916-18

14. T. E. Lawrence & Prince
Faisal at Versailles, 1918-19

15. The Tsar with General Brusilov

16. Autocratic Russia
• Romanov’s ruled for over 300 years in
Russia
• When Alexander II was assassinated
in 1881, Alexander III takes over.
• Alexander II, III, and Nicholas II all
were autocrats who pushed
conservatism and Russification & anti-
semitism.
• Did not accept liberal change and
hated Marxism. Saw it as direct threat
to their power. A2,A3,N2

17. Earlier 1905 Revolution in
Russia
• Many in Russia wanted at least a Constitutional
monarchy-Czars said NO
• 1903, Social democrats split into 2 groups-
– Mensheviks-gradual change
– Bolsheviks-communist takeover-Vladimir Lenin
• 1905- Russian losses in Russo-Jap war showed
weakness of Monarchy
• “Bloody Sunday” Tsar’s soldiers fired upon strikers
and massacred most.
• Nicholas II reluctantly agrees to Duma, but refuses
to work with them in govt.
• This leaves Russia in a very unstable and pre-
revolutionary mindset.

18. Th e
“ C olonial
”
F ronts

19. Sikh British Soldiers in India

20. Fighting in Africa
Black Soldiers in the
German Schutztruppen
[German E. Africa]
British Sikh
Mountain Gunners

21. Fighting in Africa
3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade

22. Fighting in Salonika, Greece
French colonial marine infantry from
Cochin, China - 1916

23. Am e rica
Joins
th e
Allie s
1 91 7

24. The Sinking
of the Lusitania

25. The Zimmerman Telegram
January 1917

26. The Yanks
Are Coming!

27. Americans in the Trenches

28. Th e War of
th e
Ind u s trial
R e volu tion:
New
Te ch nology

29. French Renault Tank

30. British Tank at Ypres

31. U-Boats

32. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats

33. The Airplane
“Squadron Over the Brenta”
Max Edler von Poosch, 1917

34. The Flying Aces of World War I
Eddie Francesco Eddie “Mick”
Rickenbacher, US Barraco, It. Mannoch, Br.
Rene Pauk Manfred von
Willy Coppens de
Fonck, Fr. Richtoffen, Ger.
Holthust, Belg.
[The “Red Baron”]

35. Curtis-Martin
U. S. Aircraft Plant

36. Looking for the “Red Baron?”

37. The Zeppelin

38. Flame
Throwers
Grenade
Launchers

39. Poison Gas
Machine Gun

40. “ Art”
of
World
War I

41. “A Street in Arras”
John Singer Sargent, 1918

42. “Oppy Wood” – John Nash, 1917

43. “Those Who Have Lost Their Names”
Albin Eggar-Linz, 1914

44. “Gassed and Wounded”
Eric Kennington, 1918

45. “Paths of Glory”
C. R. W. Nevinson, 1917

46. German Cartoon:
“Fit for active service!”, 1918

47. 1918 Flu Pandemic:
Depletes All Armies
50,000,000 –
100,000,000 died

48. 11 a.m., November 11, 1918
The Armistice is Signed!

49. 9,000,000 Dead

50. The Somme American
Cemetary, France
116,516 Americans Died

51. World War I Casualties
10,000,000
9,000,000 Russia
8,000,000 Germany
7,000,000 Austria-Hungary
6,000,000 France
5,000,000
4,000,000 Great Britain
3,000,000 Italy
2,000,000 Turkey
1,000,000 US
0

52. Turkish Genocide Against Armenians
A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!

53. Turkish Genocide Against Armenians
Districts & Vilayets of Western
1914 1922
Armenia in Turkey
Erzerum 215,000 1,500
Van 197,000 500
Kharbert 204,000 35,000
Diarbekir 124,000 3,000
Bitlis 220,000 56,000
Sivas 225,000 16,800
Other Armenian-populated Sites
in Turkey
Western Anatolia 371,800 27,000
Cilicia and Northern Syria 309,000 70,000
European Turkey 194,000 163,000
Trapizond District 73,390 15,000
Total 2,133,190 387,800