1. From Belgium to the Trenches…
Assignment #3: Military Aspects of WWI….
WWI: A New Kind of War
From Belgium to the Trenches…

2. Assignment #3: WWI Video Reflections
Title a sheet of binder paper:
Assignment #3 WWI Video Reflections
You will watch 4 video clips relating to military aspects of the beginning of WWI.
After each clip, answer the reflection question including specific details from video.

3. “Two-Front” War Develops between Allied & Central Powers
Germany, AH< Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire vs. France, Russia and soon: Britain in defense of their empire and Italy and Japan in hopes of post-war gain.
All of them hoped to gain power and eventually brought their colonial holdings in.
Schlieffen Plan:

4. Why did the German army invade neutral Belgium and how did this influence public opinions about the war?
Video Reflection #1 (3:00 – 14:00)
1914

5. Political Impacts of Attack on Neutral Belgium
German army accused of atrocities against Belgian civilians
Outraged over attack on neutral Belgium, England declares war on Germany (August 1914)
Italy later (1915) uses attack on Belgium as excuse to leave Triple Alliance & join Allies
Events in Belgium remembered for rest of war as seen in US propaganda (1917) on the right

6. Video Reflection #2 (40:00 - 50:00)
Why did a “stalemate” develop on the Western Front? Describe how soldiers on all sides faced their situation.
Video Reflection #2 (40: :00)

7. Trench Warfare on Western Front

8. New military technologies of World War I

9. Video Reflection #3 (27:15 -32:00): Describe the early fighting on the Eastern Front between Russia & Germany

10. Video Reflection #4 (1: :30): Considering the overview discussed in the video, what aspects of WWI do you think are most worth understanding and remembering? Why?
Mobilized Dead Wounded Missing/PoW
Russia ,000, ,700, ,950, ,500,000
Germany ,000, ,773, ,216, ,152,800
Great Britain ,904, , ,090, ,652
France ,410, ,375, ,266, ,000
Austria-Hungary ,800, ,200, ,620, ,200,000
Italy ,615, , , ,000
US ,355, , , ,526
Turkey ,850, , , ,000
Bulgaria ,200, , , ,029
Serbia , , , ,958
Belgium , , , ,659 .