1. A New Kind of War

2. Trench Warfare

3. Trench Warfare “over the top”

4. “No Mans Land”

5. New Technology Machine Gun

6. Artillery Shells up to 10 miles away

7. Poison Gas “The Chemist War”

8. Baron
Von Richthoven
The Red Baron

9. Tanks

10. Submarines German U - Boats

11. Americans
“Neutrality”

12. Americans Culture Germans Sink the Lusitania in 1915
(German Immigrants vs English Culture)
Germans Sink the Lusitania in 1915

13. Americans 1917 US Declares War Culture
Germans Sink the Lusitania in 1915
Zimmerman Note

14. The War to End All War - President Woodrow Wilson
1917 US Declares War
The War to End All War - President Woodrow Wilson
A war to defend Democracy

15. Total War

16. Conscription “the Draft”
Total War
Conscription
“the Draft”

17. The “Doughboys” Arrive
Total War
The “Doughboys” Arrive
The US quickly trained 3 million draftees and volunteers in a matter of months 17

18. Total War
Food Rationing

19. The Food Administration asked the people to conserve “Gasless Sundays”
Total War
The Food Administration
asked the people to conserve
“Gasless Sundays”
“Heatless Mondays”
“Meatless Tuesdays”
“Wheatless Wednesdays”
“Lightless Nights”
Farmers increased
food production by 25% 19

20. Total War
Propaganda
Atrocities by Germans

21. Women Go to Work in factories
Total War
Food Rationing
Propaganda
Atrocities by Germans
Women Go to Work in factories

22. The Harlem Hellfighters
More than 300,000 African-Americans volunteered or were drafted
Discrimination kept them mostly separated from white troops 22

23. The Harlem Hellfighters
The entire regiment earned France’s highest combat medal for bravery during the war
They were the first to reach the Rhine River in Germany. 23

24. Casualty List of WW I Allied Powers Russia 9,150,000 76.3 France
Country
Total Mobilized
Killed
Wounded
Prisoners & Missing
Total Casualties
Casualties as a Percent of Those Mobilized
Allied Powers
Russia
12,000,000
1,700,000
4,950,000
2,500,000
9,150,000
76.3
France
8,410,000
1,357,800
4,266,000
537,000
6,160,800
British Empire
8,904,467
908,371
2,090,212
191,652
3,190,235
35.8
Italy
5,615,000
650,000
947,000
600,000
2,197,000
39.1
United States
4,355,000
126,000
234,300
4,500
364,800
8.2
Central Powers
Germany
11,000,000
1,773,700
4,216,058
1,152,800
7,142,558
64.9
Austria-Hungary
7,800,000
1,200,000
3,620,000
2,200,000
7,020,000
90.0
Turkey
2,850,000
325,000
400,000
250,000
975,000
34.2