AT LEAST 1 COUNTRY FROM EVERY CONTINENT FOUGHT IN THE WAR EXCEPT ANTARCTICA!
GURKHA SOLDIERS (INDIAN SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT FOR BRITAIN)
A TRULY GLOBAL WAR
TRENCH WARFARE First an artillery barrage, then a gas attack, and finally the troops went "over the top" into "no-mans-land" - if they got to the other side they still had to make it past the barbed wire before they could get into the other side's trenches. Few made it.
TYPICAL WWI TRENCH
WHAT THE TRENCHES LOOK LIKE TODAY
TRENCH WARFARE EXHIBIT- LONDON
MAXIM MACHINE GUN
TOOLS OF WAR
LIFE RAFT FROM THE LUSITANIA A German U- boat boat sunk the Lusitania killing 1,198 citizens including 128 Americans
FUTBOL FROM THE HOLIDAY TRUCE OF 1914
FRENCH BIPLANE
FRENCH TAXIS USED IN THE BATTLE OF THE MARNE
WEAPONS OF TRENCH WARFARE
AMERICAN WEAPONS
DEEP SEA MINE
TRENCH FOOT
BATTLE OF GALLIPOLI “DISASTER FOR THE ALLIES”
KING GEORGE OF GREAT BRITAIN, TSAR NICHOLAS OF RUSSIA, FRANZ JOSEF OF AUSTRIA AND KAISER WILHELM II OF GERMANY, 4 OF THE 5 MAJOR POWERS IN THE OTHER WAS FRANCE. THE NEXT POWERFUL NATION, THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE WAS ON THE DECLINE
WWI AMPUTEES
NEW WEAPONS OF WWI ( “1 ST INDUSTRIALIZED WAR”)
DOG EQUIPPED WITH A GAS MASK
“WILLY” 1 ST TANK
WWI TANK-INVENTED BY THE BRITISH
INSIDE A TANK Life inside a tank was unpleasant. The tank was hot, fume ridden, and badly ventilated, making the crew sick or even making them faint. The heat was sometimes so great in light tanks that it exploded the ammunition
EXAMPLE OF PROPAGANDA
WWI AVIATION A postcard from the war shows the early attempts at fighting in the air
“BIG 4 ”- WILSON, CLEMENCEAU, GEORGE, ORLANDO VICTORIO
Spanish influenza 1918 video Spanish influenza 1918 video Killed 50 million or 1/5 of the population !