WHAT’S UP HUN? WHAT UP TOMMY?

German Pickelhaube

WHY WAS THIS THE GREATEST WAR THE WORLD HAD EVER KNOWN WHY WAS THIS THE GREATEST WAR THE WORLD HAD EVER KNOWN? WHY WERE THERE SO MANY CASUALTIES?

“Killed In Action”

The Western Front

Serbia Britain Austria-Hungary 1,200,000 DEAD 3,620,000 WOUNDED Germany 1,773,000 DEAD 4,210,000 WOUNDED Russia 1,700,000 DEAD 4,950,000 WOUNDED France 1,375,000 DEAD 4,260,000 WOUNDED

Weapons of World War I

Machine Guns

British Mark II Tanks

Phosgene & Chlorine Gas Mustard Gas

German Poison Gas Attack Warning Bell (Ypres, Belgium)

British Anti-German War Propaganda Sketch

FLAMETHROWERS

Aviation

Orville & Wilbur Wright Developed 1st viable flying machine in 1903 By 1905 they tweaked it to fly a sustained amount of time French took this technology & developed it in Europe Germany makes 1st military fighter plane mounted with machine gun

1st Flight; Dec. 17, 1903 Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

U.S. Army Demo; 1908

The Red Baron (80 Strikes): Baron Manfred Von Richtoffen Famous German WW1 Ace Pilot. Had more recorded air strikes compared to any other WW1 pilot.

American WW1 Flying Ace: Eddie Rickenbacker (26 Combat Victories)

1915 80 British Reconnaissance planes helped target German trench lines in the 1st big air battle of WWI.

The Western Front

Stalemate This trench warfare strategy employed by both sides led to a stalemate or deadlock for much of the war along the Western Front. It was not until the United States entered into the fray that the Allies began to gain enough momentum to turn the tide of the war in their favor.

Summer Flooding & Rats

Trench Foot

No Man’s Land: Area Between enemy trenches

Erich Remarque German born author who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) WWI veteran injured during the Great War on the Western Front Became award winning author & relocated to Switzerland after Hitler’s rise to power in Germany Moved to U.S.A. in 1939

All Quiet On the Western Front Ant-War Novel published in 1929 Purpose was to tell about the horrors of war from a soldier’s point of view Turned into a 1930 movie which won the Academy Award for Best Picture Remade into a 1979 CBS TV movie