Group Ranking

Group Ranking Using your timeline, choose the five

most important events from WWI…1 being the most important and five being the least.– After you have ranked them, write a

brief explanation of why #1 is the most important event of WWI.

What country do you think should have been blamed for WWI? Why?

Weapons of World War I

Machine GunPoison GasAirplanes

TanksSubmarines (U-boats)

Machine Guns1.) Transformed warfare2.) Able to kill an entire unit of men.3.) Created a stalemate during the war.

The First Tanks Used to breech holes in trench line

defenses

Poison Gas1.) Used for the 1st time during WWI.2.) Germans were the 1st to use it.3.) Mustard gas - most lethal of all gases. Caused blindness, blisters, death by choking.

German U-Boats Hunted in “packs” to attack Allied

ships in the Atlantic

Aerial Combatfor the First Time in History

All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)

Trench warfare The Germans decided to dig trenches that would provide them protection from the French and British troops. The Allies couldn’t break through this line, causing them to dig trenches. Eventually they spread from the North Sea to the Swiss Frontier.

Conditions of the Trenches Millions of soldiers

roasted under the broiling summer sun or froze through long winters. They share their food with rats and their beds with lice. Pumpin

g out the trenches to avoid trench foot

Trench Foot

If you have never had trench feet described to you. I will tell you. Your feet swell to two or three times their normal size and go completely dead. You could stick a bayonet into them and not feel a thing. If you are fortunate enough not to lose your feet, the swelling begins to go down. It is then that the intolerable, indescribable agony begins. I have heard men cry and even scream with the pain and many had to have their feet and legs amputated. Sergeant Harry Roberts

All we lived on was tea and biscuits (cookie). If we got meat once a week we were lucky, but imagine trying to eat standing in a trench full of water with the smell of dead bodies nearby. Richard Beasley

The other one said to me "Chas, I am going home to my wife and kids. I'll be some use to them as a cripple, but none at all dead! I am starving here, and so are they at home, we may as well starve together." With that he fired a shot through his boot. When the medics got his boot off, two of his toes and a lot of his foot had gone. But the injuring of oneself to get out of it was quite common. Charles Young

The trench, when we reached it, was half full of mud and water. We set to work to try and drain it. Our efforts were hampered by the fact that the French, who had first occupied it, had buried their dead in the bottom and sides. Every stroke of the pick encountered a body. The smell was awful. Private Pollard

No Man’s Land1.) Ground between two opposing trenches. 2.) Contained barbed wire. 3.) Millions of men died trying to make it across.

Preparing to Enter No-Man’s Land

Over the Top

1. Sinking of the Lusitania2. German announcement of

unrestricted submarine warfare

3. Germans sank 4 American merchant ships

4. Zimmermann telegram

Reasons for US entry into World War I:

The End of the War List at least 5 results from the war. (855-856) List the “Big 4” countries that were present

at the Paris Peace Conference and the countries not represented. (858)

Woodrow Wilson proposed the Fourteen Points. What were 7 of these points and what was the guiding idea behind these points? (858)

What was stated in the Treat of Versailles? What country was punished? How? What new nations were formed? (858-859)

What was wrong with the treaty? What countries like it/didn’t like it? Why? (859-861)