1. Total War!
Warfare of World War I

2. II. Warfare How did new technology affect the warfare?
What was trench warfare and No Man’s land?
Why was WWI called the war of attrition?

3. Fighting a World War
Many thought it would be a short war, no preparation was taken for winter.
The Central Powers tried to move quickly, but were pushed back by the Allies outside of Paris.
The Schliefflen Plan (fails)
Great Britain joins the war to stop Germany
Russians pushed on Germany and Austria- Hungary from the east.
The Central Powers found themselves fighting a “two-front” war, a Western Front and an Eastern Front

4. New Techniques of Warfare
New weapons such as the machine gun, poison gas, and the tank made this war look like no other.
Trenches were dug to protect soldiers from these terrible new weapons.
A No man’s land was created between trenches of enemy countries. Little land was won or lost during this trench warfare.

5. Poison Gas

6. Machine Guns

7. Barbed Wire

8. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun
Heavy Artillery
Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun

9. U-Boats

10. Submarine Warfare

11. War planes

12. Clockwise from upper left: German zeppelin, French soldier fitting gas
mask, German tank, water cooled machine gun, English field gun shell

13. Tanks!

14. Multi-Front War

15. Western Front
Trench Warfare

16. Trench Warfare
Stalemate -- Deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other.

17. No Man’s Land -- area of land between two enemy trench systems

19. Causalities Verdun – February, 1916 German offensive.
Each side had 500,000 casualties.
Somme – July, 2016
60,000 British soldiers killed in one day.
Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.

21. Total War – Using all of a country’s human, economic, and political resources to win. Human Example: Conscription – “The Draft” Economic Example: Rationing – using less food and materials at home Economic Warfare – Blockades – military strategy to cut off supplies or communication. British navy prevents goods from reaching Germany – thousands of civilians die of starvation German blockade uses U-boats – prevent supplies from reaching Britain

23. The Sinking of the Lusitania
7 May 1915 German U Boat torpedoed the ship1,198 and leaving 761 survivors
British liner

24. German propaganda showing the sinking of the Lusitania

25. What new weapons and technologies were used in WWI?
How did these new technology affect the warfare?
What was trench warfare and No man’s land?