1. THE GREAT WAR What & When: WW I 1914-18 Central Powers: Germany,
Austria-Hungary,
Ottoman Empire

2. The Allies:
Britain, France,
Russia & Italy
What Everyone Thought:
This war would be short, & it
would be the “war to end all wars”
WW I turns into a
bloody stalemate
Reality:

3. The Western Front:
Battlefields
in France
The Eastern Front:
Battlefields
in Russia
Problem for Germany:
They have to fight the war on two
Fronts.

4. A Global Conflict:
Besides Europe, WW I was fought
in Africa, Asia & the Ottoman
Empire of the Middle East.
Much of the fighting:
Turned into Trench Warfare
What caused this?
The machine gun

5. Trench Warfare Details:
-stretched almost 500 miles on the
Western Front
“No Man’s Land” was the area
in the middle.
-many soldiers would be killed
without any ground gained.

6. Life In The Trenches -Dead Bodies everywhere
-Little Food or Clean water
-Disease
-Trench Foot
-Trench Rats
-Shell Shock

8. Trench Foot

9. Trench Rats