1. What is happening in the cartoon?
Thursday Warm-Up
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What is happening in the cartoon?

2. Weapons Foldable Review What’s important?
Zeppelin- also know as a blimp, was used in bombing raids by Germans; also used for aerial observation
Tanks- Small, slow and in the beginning it could not cross trenches
Planes- First used to deliver bombs but mostly for spying; later they carry guns and used for aerial battle

3. Weapons Foldable Review What’s important?
Guns- could fire multiple rounds and accurately hit targets further away; machine and artillery guns could cause more devastation
Navy- Britain’s tactic was to block German ships from leaving port; Germany used subs to attack apply ships
Gas- used to attack the respiratory system; caused suffocation, blindness or worse. Weather conditions had to be right for attack to be affective.

4. GLUE YOUR GUIDED NOTES ONTO PAGE #71 IN YOUR NOTEBOOK

5. THE WESTERN FRONT
THE MOST IMPORTANT BATTLES OF WORLD WAR ONE WERE FOUGHT ALONG THE WESTERN FRONT IN EUROPE(MOSTLY IN FRANCE)
FIGHTING ON THIS FRONT RESULTS IN A STALEMATE
FRONT- GEOGRAPHICAL AREA WHERE ARMIES ARE ENGAGED IN CONFLICT.
WAR OF ATTRITION-WEARING DOWN AN OPPOSITION BY CAUSING THEM TO EXHAUST ALL THEIR RESOURCES

6. TRENCH WARFARE
INTRODUCTION OF THE MACHINE GUN AND QUICK FIRING ARTILLERY CAUSED FOR LARGE SCALE USE OF TRENCHES
TYPICAL TRENCH SYSTEM CONSISTED OF TWO OR MORE PARALLEL TRENCHES, CONNECTED BY COMMUNICATION TRENCHES

7. CONDITIONS IN THE TRENCHES
DAY-TIME HOURS WERE SPENT DOING SMALL CHORES, WRITING LETTERS HOME, OR TRYING TO SLEEP
NIGHT-TIME HOURS IS WHEN TRENCHES BECAME VERY BUSY
CONDITIONS IN THE TRENCHES
RATS
LICE
TRENCH FOOT
BOREDOM

8. THE TRENCHES

9. BATTLE OF VERDUN FEBRUARY 21,1916- DECEMBER 16,1916
ATTEMPT BY GERMANS TO TAKE CITY OF VERDUN IN FRANCE
LONGEST LASTING SINGLE BATTLE OF WORLD WAR ONE
COMBINED 600,000 CASUALTIES BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND GERMANS

10. BATTLE OF THE SOMME JULY 1 TO NOVEMBER 1, 1918
BRITISH OFFENSIVE TO TRY TO BREAK THROUGH GERMAN FRONT LINES
ONE OF THE BLOODIEST BATTLES IN BRITISH MILITARY HISTORY
57,000 BRITISH CASUALTIES ON FIRST DAY
1.5 MILLION CASUALTIES BETWEEN BOTH SIDES

11. THE EASTERN FRONT THE GERMANS WERE FORCED TO FIGHT A TWO FRONT WAR
FIGHTING BEGAN ON THE EASTERN FRONT WHEN RUSSIA INVADED GERMANY IN 1914.
THE EASTERN FRONT SAW MANY VICTORIES FOR THE CENTRAL POWERS
1917- TWO REVOLUTIONS TAKE PLACE IN RUSSIA
RUSSIA WITHDRAWS FROM WWI
GERMANY NO LONGER HAD TO FIGHT A TWO FRONT WAR.

12. US NEUTRALITY U.S. Neutrality
Followed a policy of not getting involved in the war
Americans viewed the war as strictly a European matter
U.S. banks were loaning millions in money and arms sales to the Allies.
1916, Wilson prepares the military by increasing soldiers.
President Wilson won the election, with the slogan, “He Kept Us Out of War”.

13. SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA
ON MAY 7, 1915 A GERMAN U-BOAT TORPEDOED AND SUNK THE BRITISH LINER NAMED THE LUSITANIA
1,198 PEOPLE WERE KILLED WITH 128 BEING AMERICAN CITIZENS
GERMANS CLAIMED SHIP WAS CARRYING WAR SUPPLIES FROM AMERICA
THE GERMANS WERE RIGHT!

14. ZIMMERMAN NOTE
JANUARY GERMAN FOREIGN SECRETARY ARTHUR ZIMMERMANN SENT A TELEGRAM TO THE GOVERNMENT OF MEXICO
ASKS MEXICAN GOVERNMENT FOR HELP SHOULD GERMANY GO TO WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES
IN RETURN GERMANY PROMISED TO HELP MEXICO CONQUER STATES OF TEXAS, ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO

15. MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY
AMERICANS BEGAN TO FEAR WHETHER OR NOT DEMOCRACY COULD SURVIVE IN EUROPE IF BRITAIN AND FRANCE LOST THE WAR
CENTRAL POWERS WERE REGARDED AS UNDEMOCRATIC AND MILITARISTIC
PRESIDENT WILSON BELIEVED AMERICA NEEDED TO AID THE ALLIES TO MAKE THE WORLD “SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY”
APRIL 6, WITH PRESIDENT WILSON’S URGING CONGRESS DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY

16. PROPAGANDA
Propaganda is a form of communication aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position
Powerful images like these spread through the US causing many people to change their minds about remaining isolated.

17. THE WAR AT HOME
Mobilize the nation
Government programs to finance the war – Liberty Bonds
Conserve scarce resources – Steel
Redirect industry and labor toward wartime production
Victory Gardens

18. Annotate the passage(Talk to the Text)
WWI Reading
Read the Trench Warfare and Battle of the Somme reading and complete the following tasks:
Annotate the passage(Talk to the Text)
Answer the guiding questions that follow the reading passage.

19. Exit Ticket #1
During WWI, Germany was forced to fight a two front war. What is a front?
The trench where the ammunition was stored
A geographic area where armies are engaged in battle
The enemy’s base camp
The start of No Man’s Land

20. Exit Ticket #2
The western front stretched mostly through France. Which answer best describes the fighting along the western front?
It was a stalemate with neither side gaining must territory
It was very active with the Allied Powers gaining much territory
It was very active with the Central Powers gaining much territory
None of the Above