World%20War%20I%20Pictures

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World War I Pictures

• 1914-1918

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Map of Europe during WWI
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What sparked the beginning of WWI?

• The assassination of an Austrian prince Archduke
  Francis Ferdinand and his wife.
• Alliances (gangs) of countries went to war with
  each other.

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What brought U.S. into WWI?

• The sinking of the Lusitania, a cargo ship
  carrying passengers and weapons to Great Britain.
  German subs torpedoed the ship and sunk it.

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More Lusitania pictures.
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WWI was the 1st mechanized war

• That means machines were used to fight in the war.

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Submarine warfare

• The Lusitania was sunk by a German sub like this
  one.
• Unrestricted submarine warfare meant the Germans
  shot at all ships, not just British and French.
• America claimed it was neutral in the war, but in
  reality it was selling weapons to France and
  Great Britain. Germany knew this and torpedoed
  ships like the Lusitania.

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Trench warfare

• WWI is known for its trench warfare. Soldiers on
  all sides would dig trenches to protect them from
  gunfire and anything else.

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New weapons from WWI

• This is a machine gun from WWI.
• If you are in a trench and you are attacked, you
  will want one of these.

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Airplanes

• Airplanes were used for war for the first time
  during WWI.
• The most famous pilot of WWI was the Red Baron.
  He was German.

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More airplanes

• Airplanes would drop bombs by hand into the
  trenches. They had machine guns mounted on them.

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Zeppelins

• Germans used zeppelins to bomb targets from an
  altitude that WWI planes could not reach.

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More Zeppelins!

• Often English pilots would pursue the zeppelins
  across the sky but they had little chance of
  catching them. The zeppelins would fly very high
  and as fast as the airplane chasing it. To make
  matters worse, if a pilot did manage to catch up
  to the airship, the zeppelins were bristling with
  machine guns.

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How do you successfully fight in trench
warfare?
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TANKS!!!
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More Tanks!
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Biochemical warfare

• WWI was a rare war where chemical weapons were
  used.
• Mustard and tear gas were used to bring soldiers
  out of the trenches.
• Some gases would blind soldiers.

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Total War!!

• Total war is using your entire economy and
  resources for the war effort.
• It also means purposefully attacking civilians,
  not just military.

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