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Section 14-2 World War I
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Section 14-2. World War I. The Fighting Starts. Trench Warfare- was used to hold off the German advance. Very bloody and deadly type of warfare, where two parallel systems of trenches were dug across France and Belgium. Armies fought for mere yards of ground over three years. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Section 14-2
World War I
The Fighting Starts
• Trench Warfare- was used to hold off the German advance. Very bloody and deadly type of warfare, where two parallel systems of trenches were dug across France and Belgium. Armies fought for mere yards of ground over three years.
• “No man’s land”- barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire that was between the trenches.
Australian Poster
German Poster
Think of Your Children!
The Western Front:
A “War of
Attrition”
A Multi-Front War
The Western Front
Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”
The Airplane
“Squadron Over the Brenta”
Max Edler von Poosch, 1917
The Flying Aces of World War I
Eddie Rickenbacher, US
FrancescoBarraco, It.
Rene PaukFonck, Fr.
Manfred vonRichtoffen, Ger.
[The “Red Baron”]
Willy Coppens deHolthust, Belg.
Eddie “Mick”Mannoch, Br.
Looking for the “Red Baron?”
Verdun – February, 1916
e German offensive.e Each side had 500,000 casualties.
The Somme – July, 1916
e 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day.e Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.
TheEastern
Front
The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915
Turkish Cavalry in Palestine
AmericaJoinsthe
Allies
The Sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmerman Telegram
The YanksAre
Coming!
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