COURSE OF WWI. Course of WWI short war illusion Schlieffen Plan: avoid 2-front war western front vs. eastern front trench warfare = stalemate.

COURSE OF WWI

Course of WWI

short war illusion Schlieffen Plan: avoid 2-front war western front vs. eastern front trench warfare = stalemate

Schlieffen Plan – August, 1914

Schlieffen Plan – September, 1914

Trench Warfare

Trenches

A British soldier inside a trench.

Battles to Know

Marne 1st trenches

Somme & Verdun bloody little ground gained

Why did the US enter the war in 1917? Germany’s unrestricted submarine

warfare 1915: sinking of Lusitania 1915-1917: halted 1917: resumed

Zimmermann Telegram Germany offered Mexico US territory if they

joined the German cause

Why was WWI so destructive? trench warfare new technologies:

tank poison gas machine gun airplane submarine

Verdun: Before & After

Cloister of the Hotel la Princerie (France) – before and after the battle.

Tank

A German tank.

1916: tank warfare introduced by France/GB

1917: France & GB used 1500 tanks each

Poison Gas

German soldiers wearing gas masks.

The Germans introduced the use of poison gas in warfare in 1915.

Machine Gun

Airplane

Above: Painting of a British airplane engaged in combat. The airplane has a machine gun mounted on its top wing.

Below: A German airplane.

Snoopy, the WWI Flying Ace

Submarine

A German U-boat, 1910.