1. WWI
soldiers, trenches, and battles

3. French Uniform
British Uniform
Russian Uniform

4. Turkish Uniform
German Uniform
Austria-Hungarian Uniform

5. World War I Advances in Weaponry

6. Flame Thrower
Grenades
Machine Gun

7. Zeppelin
Planes

8. Pistol
Poison Gas
Rifle
Tank

9. The skin of victims of mustard gas blistered, the eyes became very sore and they began to vomit. Mustard gas caused internal and external bleeding and attacked the bronchial tubes, stripping off the mucous membrane. This was extremely painful and most soldiers had to be strapped to their beds. It usually took a person four or five weeks to die of mustard gas poisoning. One nurse, Vera Brittain, wrote: "I wish those people who talk about going on with this war whatever it costs could see the soldiers suffering from mustard gas poisoning. Great mustard-colored blisters, blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying that their throats are closing and they know they will choke."
Mustard Gas

10. Life in the Trenches...

11. Life in the Trenches...
Trench Foot

12. April 22, 1915 2nd Battle of Ypres
First use of chemical warfare (chlorine gas)
5,700 canisters containing 168 tons of gas released at sunrise April 22 by Germans
Stunned Allied troops fled toward Ypres
Gas affected 10,000 troops-1/2 died within first 10 minutes of gas reaching front lines
Many temporarily blinded and stumbled in confusion-2,000 of them captured by Germans
April 24-Germans release 2nd batch of chlorine gas on Allies northeast of Ypres