Images of WWI In order to get a better perspective on what it was like during the Great War, I have complied a “photographs” of soldiers, battlefields, the weapons of the war, the dead, quotes, and artwork. In order to get a better perspective on what it was like during the Great War, I have complied a “photographs” of soldiers, battlefields, the weapons of the war, the dead, quotes, and artwork. In your viewing, take notes on: In your viewing, take notes on: 1. images that surprised you, 1. images that surprised you, 2. images that horrified you, 2. images that horrified you, 3. daily life of a soldier 3. daily life of a soldier

Do Now: Set up notes: images of WWI Set up notes: images of WWI Be sure you have a photocopy of the poem: “Dulce et Decorum Est” Be sure you have a photocopy of the poem: “Dulce et Decorum Est” Read the assignment on the back, while I take attendance Read the assignment on the back, while I take attendance Oral History Project: Due on Tuesday. 100pts. Oral History Project: Due on Tuesday. 100pts. Hmwk #8 – 186 – 195 – Wednesday. Hmwk #8 – 186 – 195 – Wednesday. Hmwk #9 – WWI Newspaper – Friday 50pts. Hmwk #9 – WWI Newspaper – Friday 50pts.

Images of WWI

Soldiers running across No Man’s Land

Trench Warfare

Soldiers in the Trench

Western Front Eastern Front

Images of WWI Verdun: Cloister of the Hotel de la Princerie

Images of WWI After the shelling of Verdun

Images of WWI Before: Village of Esnes is shelled

Images of WWI After the shelling of Village of Esnes

Images of WWI A German tank caught in a British Trench

Images of WWI Death of a French regiment

Images of WWI German remains at Verdun

WWI Art – a new genre

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Over the Top by John Nash

John Nash, Oppy Wood, 1917

SUNDAY MORNING AT CUNEL by Harvey Thomas Dunn

John Singer Sargent Gassed

Eric Kennington, Gassed and Wounded, 1918

Frequent site of soldiers on their free time

American Soldiers

Images of WWI Gas Shells exploding in “No Man’s Land”

Images of WWI A common site in WWI: The Gas Mask

Wounded through the Trench

Images of WWI Germans in the Trench

Images of WWI Russians fighting while under gas attack

Images of WWI “NO Man’s Land” Referred to the territory between the opponents trenches. Soldiers were told to “go over the top” out of the trench by commanding officers almost to certain death by machine gun fire. Barbed wire and pits from artillery fire made it nearly impossible for attacking units to survive.

Images of WWI British poet Wilfred Owen, later killed in action during the war, wrote: British poet Wilfred Owen, later killed in action during the war, wrote: "No Man's Land is pocket marked like the body of foulest disease and its odor is the breath of cancer...No Man's Land under snow is like the face of the moon, chaotic, crater-ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness." "No Man's Land is pocket marked like the body of foulest disease and its odor is the breath of cancer...No Man's Land under snow is like the face of the moon, chaotic, crater-ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness."

Trench Warfare

Images of WWI Christian Maier, Machine Gunner, Imperial German Army

Images of WWI A German Maxim Machine Gun crew

Images of WWI Water Filled Trench in Passchendaele, 1917 Trenches often became water- logged and many soldiers would get “trench-foot”

Images of WWI Trench Foot

Images of WWI A captured British tank

Images of WWI German unit on the offensive into No Man’s Land Notice the barb wire. This probably caused more deaths than rifles.

Images of WWI Battlefield littered with dead

British veterans, all amputees phenomenal

Images of WWI American Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, took a friend to battlefield in the north of France after the war. He said: American Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, took a friend to battlefield in the north of France after the war. He said: “See that little stream - we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it - a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving behind the dead like a million bloody rags. No European will ever do that again in this generation.” “See that little stream - we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it - a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving behind the dead like a million bloody rags. No European will ever do that again in this generation.”

Corporal D.L. Rowlands, letter to his future wife (5th February, 1918) “Perhaps you would like to know something of the spirit of the men out here now. Well, the truth is (I'd be shot if anyone of importance collared this missive) every man Jack is fed up almost past bearing, and not a single one has an ounce of what we call patriotism left in him. No one cares a rap whether Germany has Alsace, Belgium or France too for that matter. All that every man desires now is to get done with it and go home. Now that's the honest truth, and any man who has been out here within the last few months will tell you the same. In fact, and this is no exaggeration, the greatest hope of a great majority of the men is that rioting and revolt at home will force the government to pack in on any terms.” “Perhaps you would like to know something of the spirit of the men out here now. Well, the truth is (I'd be shot if anyone of importance collared this missive) every man Jack is fed up almost past bearing, and not a single one has an ounce of what we call patriotism left in him. No one cares a rap whether Germany has Alsace, Belgium or France too for that matter. All that every man desires now is to get done with it and go home. Now that's the honest truth, and any man who has been out here within the last few months will tell you the same. In fact, and this is no exaggeration, the greatest hope of a great majority of the men is that rioting and revolt at home will force the government to pack in on any terms.”

Prepare for the following!!!! 1. How are these causes of WWI? 1. How are these causes of WWI? Militarism Militarism Nationalism Nationalism Imperialism Imperialism 2. Alliance Systems 2. Alliance Systems Look to your chart & Notes Look to your chart & Notes 3. Assassination & its effects 3. Assassination & its effects