1. Aim: How did World War I have devastating global effects?

3. New technology Machine guns Artillery (cannons) i.e. “Big Bertha”
Gas grenades
Transportation (trains, automobiles)
Communication (radios, telephones)
Tanks
Planes
Naval Units
technology

4. Posters always showed men ready and willing to fight.
They never showed the boredom of the trenches or actual fighting taking place.
Why do you think the government showed no fighting?
Fantasy vs. Realilty

5. A picture of soldiers going
The British government wanted to encourage men to enlist for war.
They said the war would be safe, hardly any fighting, a good lark and over by Christmas.
They used advertising posters to encourage this idea!
A picture of soldiers going
‘Over the Top’

6. ‘Going over the top’

7. All Quiet on the western front (youtube clips)

8. Freezing Winters

9. The soldiers had very little decent food, and what food they had was often attacked by rats.
These rats were the size of small rabbits and badgers because they had fed on the decomposing bodies of dead soldiers.

10. AS TOLD BY THE SOLDIERS THEMSELVES
THE HORRORS OF WAR:
AS TOLD BY THE SOLDIERS THEMSELVES

11. Trench Foot

12. Initially believed to be a symptom of poor morale by military authorities, 'trench foot' was in fact a fungal infection of the feet brought on by prolonged exposure to damp, cold conditions allied to poor environmental hygiene.

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14. THE RATS
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15. A HOPELESS SITUATION

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17. ANATOMY OF A TRENCH

18. TRENCH WARFARE

19. Q:How did trench warfare contribute to many deaths during World War I?

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POETS OF THE GREAT WAR
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21. Poetry from the First World War was written by soldiers who served at the Western Front.
They saw the horrors of War first hand.
They wrote about what they really saw.
Their poems were published just after the war, so they were not censored.

22. Rupert Brooke The Dead (1914)
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
These laid the world away; poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene,
That men call age; and those who would have been,
Their sons, they gave, their immortality.
Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth,
Holiness, lacked so long, and Love, and Pain,
Honour has come back, as a king, to earth,
And paid his subjects with a royal wage;
And Nobleness walks in our ways again;
And we have come into our heritage.

23. WILFRED OWEN Wilfred Owen is one of the more famous War Poets.
He was (British) born March 18th,
He joined the Army in 1915 as an Officer in the “Artists Rifles”.
Wilfred Owen served in some of the worst conditions during the following months.

24. DULCE ET DECORUM EST
By Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est

25. Wilfred Owen was 25 years old.
November 4th, 1918:
Owen and his men went ‘over the top’. He was shot and killed by German machine guns on the banks of the Sambre-Ouse Canal (Northern France).
The War ended just a week later on November 11th.
Wilfred Owen was 25 years old.

26. Compare the poems of Brooke and Owen, specifically with their attitudes toward war.

27. Why did the U.S. enter World War I?
President Wilson had wanted the U.S. to remain neutral and not get pulled into World War I.
Wilson's Declaration of Neutrality

28. Rising Tensions
In 1915 a German U-Boat sank The Lusitania, a British passenger liner.
124 Americans were killed on board this ship.
The Germans tried to prevent shipments from reaching the British and attacked U.S. merchant ships en route to Britain.
This all shifted American opinion against Germany.

30. The Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Note (Background and the telegram itself).

31. The U.S. entered the War on April 2, 1917

32. When it was all over… More than 8.5 million were dead
17 million wounded
The financial cost of the war is said to have amounted to almost $38 billion for Germany alone; Britain spent $35 billion, France $24 billion, Russia $22 billion, USA $22 billion and Austria-Hungary $20 billion.  In total the war cost the Allies around $125 billion; the Central Powers $60 billion. (Firstworldwar.com)

33. Bird Flu then, now, and in the future
Famine and disease were widespread in many regions.

34. 2015 AP World DBQ
Let’s Review: How do we approach a DBQ?
Let’s do it, set it up, including the thesis paragraph, in 20 minutes.