A New Kind of War

Trench Warfare

Trench Warfare “over the top”

“No Mans Land”

New Technology Machine Gun

Artillery Shells up to 10 miles away

Poison Gas “The Chemist War”

Baron Von Richthoven The Red Baron

Tanks

Submarines German U - Boats

Americans “Neutrality”

Americans Culture Germans Sink the Lusitania in 1915 (German Immigrants vs English Culture) Germans Sink the Lusitania in 1915

Americans 1917 US Declares War Culture Germans Sink the Lusitania in 1915 Zimmerman Note

The War to End All War - President Woodrow Wilson 1917 US Declares War The War to End All War - President Woodrow Wilson A war to defend Democracy

Total War

Conscription “the Draft” Total War Conscription “the Draft”

The “Doughboys” Arrive Total War The “Doughboys” Arrive The US quickly trained 3 million draftees and volunteers in a matter of months 17

Total War Food Rationing

The Food Administration asked the people to conserve “Gasless Sundays” Total War The Food Administration asked the people to conserve “Gasless Sundays” “Heatless Mondays” “Meatless Tuesdays” “Wheatless Wednesdays” “Lightless Nights” Farmers increased food production by 25% 19

Total War Propaganda Atrocities by Germans

Women Go to Work in factories Total War Food Rationing Propaganda Atrocities by Germans Women Go to Work in factories

The Harlem Hellfighters More than 300,000 African-Americans volunteered or were drafted Discrimination kept them mostly separated from white troops 22

The Harlem Hellfighters The entire regiment earned France’s highest combat medal for bravery during the war They were the first to reach the Rhine River in Germany. 23

Casualty List of WW I Allied Powers Russia 9,150,000 76.3 France Country Total Mobilized Killed Wounded Prisoners & Missing Total Casualties Casualties as a Percent of Those Mobilized Allied Powers Russia 12,000,000 1,700,000 4,950,000 2,500,000 9,150,000 76.3 France 8,410,000 1,357,800 4,266,000 537,000 6,160,800 British Empire 8,904,467 908,371 2,090,212 191,652 3,190,235 35.8 Italy 5,615,000 650,000 947,000 600,000 2,197,000 39.1 United States 4,355,000 126,000 234,300 4,500 364,800 8.2 Central Powers Germany 11,000,000 1,773,700 4,216,058 1,152,800 7,142,558 64.9 Austria-Hungary 7,800,000 1,200,000 3,620,000 2,200,000 7,020,000 90.0 Turkey 2,850,000 325,000 400,000 250,000 975,000 34.2