World War I: The Beginning Mr. Bach Accelerated World History Hudson High School
A Family Affair Three Cousins –King George V (England) –Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany) –Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) Willy, Nicky, and Georgie
War Goals Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire England France Russia United States
The Battle Plans France – Plan XVII (elan vital) Austria-Hungary – Plans B and R Russia – Plans G and A (19) United States Germany – Schlieffen Plan
The Schlieffen Plan
German Atrocities in Belgium
The Schlieffen Plan Falls Apart The Battle of the Marne –The Western Front The Battle of Tannenburg –The Eastern Front
The Western Front
A Multi-Front War
Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”
The Western Front Today
A New War Machine Guns Trench Warfare Barbed Wire Hand Grenades Heavy Artillery Gas Attacks (Gas Masks) Tanks Airplanes U-Boats
French Renault Tank
U-Boats
The Flying Aces of World War I Eddie Rickenbacher, US Francesco Barraco, It. Rene Pauk Fonck, Fr. Manfred von Richtoffen, Ger. [The “Red Baron”] Willy Coppens de Holthust, Belg. Eddie “Mick” Mannoch, Br.
The Zeppelin
Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers
Poison Gas Machine Gun