1. What/who do the different people represent?
What is the title? What does it mean?
What is the point of view of the cartoonist?

2. EQ: How did World War I change the nature of warfare?
A New Kind of Conflict
EQ: How did World War I change the nature of warfare?

3. The Western Front Schlieffen plan = failure
Russia mobilized quickly and forced Germany to split forces
Resulted in a stalemate, a deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other.

4. The Western Front
Trench Warfare – fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire and other defenses
“no man’s land”.
Empty tract of land in between enemy lines that soldiers from both sides were forced to cross to take enemy positions.

7. World War I Technology
Airplanes – used in combat for the first time in WWI, mainly for scouting enemy movement

8. World War I Technology Automatic Machine Guns
Mounted gun capable of firing a wave of bullets
Most responsible for stalemate that developed

9. World War I Technology Armored Tank Zeppelins
Designed to move across broken ground and barbed wire.
Slow and unreliable
Zeppelins
Large gas-filled balloons, used to bomb the English coast.

10. World War I Technology Poison Gas
Blinded, choked, and burned its victims.
Gas masks were needed for protection
Created fear and panic

11. World War I Technology U-Boat
Germany conducted unrestricted submarine warfare to keep Great Britain from receiving necessary supplies.

12. How Did the War Become a Global Conflict?
The Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria joined the Central powers
Japan and the U.S. would join the Allied Powers
War was fought in Europe as well as colonial possessions such as Africa
Colonies also provided troops and supplies

13. Europe 1918

14. Total War
Warring nations engaged in total war, the channeling of a nation’s entire resources into a war effort.
Recruited, armed, and transported huge fighting forces
Conscription, compulsory enlistment in the military
Raised taxes, borrowed money, and rationed food

15. Total War
Propaganda
Propaganda is the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause.

16. Women and War Women played a critical role in total war
Took over jobs as men left to war
Manufactured weapons and supplies
Grew food
Worked as nurses

17. To be continued…
Quiz next class!

18. How did World War I change the nature of warfare?

19. Create a Propaganda Poster
Must be original work
Must be clearly trying to convince the viewer of something
Must have text and images
Must be colored