World War I : New Technology and U.S. Involvement
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World War I: New Technology and U.S. Involvement
The History Channel on 'Trench Warfare'
* Today’s focus will be on the use of new methods and technology in World War I and the United States’ Involvement on the Western Front *
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German trenches at the right, British at
the left.
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* “Going over the top”
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* Problems in the trenches
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* Problems in the trenches: “Trench Foot” and “Trench Mouth”
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* Problems in the trenches: Rats
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* Problems in the trenches: Body Lice
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* Problems in the trenches: Snipers
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* New Weapons: Tanks
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* New Weapons: Poison Gas
* Chlorine, Mustard Gas
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* New Weapons: Poison Gas
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* New Weapons: Poison Gas
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* New Weapons: Flamethrower
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* New Weapons: Barbed Wire
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Americans Arrive on the Western Front * Arrival of Americans changed course of war and helped Allies pull off a “victory” *
* The U.S. troops were escorted by a convoy system across the Atlantic *
* June – July 1917, American troops supplemented Allied powers on the Western Front (“doughboys”)
* July 1917, John J. Pershing and the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) arrive in Paris – Pershing’s VIEWS on the U.S. involvement were different than other Allied Powers’…
* AEF troops arrived at the rate of 10,000 a day, Germans could NOT sustain fighting!
* Different tech. from the British
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Americans Arrive on the Western Front * Germans launch HUGE offensive in March 1918 (July) – AEF troops played large role in preventing Central powers from taking Paris *
*September 1918, AEF under Pershing launch the Meuse-Argonne Offensive – aka the Battle of Argonne Forest * Argonne Forest was CRUCIAL to the Allied war effort because it caused the Germans to begin their final retreat!
* November 11, 1918 – Armistice Day signaled the end of World War I *
* By October 1918, the Central powers had fallen apart (Ger., A-H, Ott.)
Battle of Argonne - "Trench Warfare"
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