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1 Chapter 6, Section 3 WWI: A Bloody Conflict

2 Trench Warfare New Weapons – such as machine guns – changed the war
Trouble advancing – dug trenches Overall good protection

3 Trench Systems

4 No Man’s Land Open space between open trenches Rough Land Barbed Wire
Most died trying to cross

5 Trench Tracks

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11 Dead Soldiers in the Trenches

12 Life in the Trenches

13 Trench Foot

14 No Man’s Land…

15 Bomb Craters

16 New Technology Germans used Poisonous Gas – blindness, suffocation
Allies developed gasmasks Britain developed Tanks Airplanes – used to survey troops & drop bombs

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20 Gas Warfare

21 Gas Burns

22 Ahhh…Chemical Burns…

23 Gas Masks All Around…

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26 Zepplin in flight…

27 Americans and Victory American Troops called (doughboys)
boosted moral – New to the war / ready to fight No American Troop ships were sunk Merchant ships moved in convoys = Reduced shipping losses

28 Russia Leaves The War Riots broke out over the war
Nicholas II abdicated his throne Temp. gov unavble to meet peoples needs Bolshevicks over threw govt Established Communist govt – Vladimir Lenin Leader

29 Russia Cont…. Lenin Pulled Russia out of War
Signed Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany Under Treaty - Russia lost Ukrane, Finland, Polish, & Baltic territories

30 Russia Cont… Lenin Pulled Russia out of War Establish Communist govt
Signed Treaty of Brest Litovsk Russia lost Ukrane, Finland, Polish, & Baltic territories

31 Germany Falters…… Germans final push on westward front
Less than 40 miles from Paris American and French troops held ground German drive Stalled U.S. gathered 600,000 troops, 40,000 Tons of supplies – 4,000 Artillery pieces U.S. led the most massive attack in U.S. History Broke German lines - Huge Casualties

32 European Devastation

33 Cont’d…Palace

34 Before & After…Ensene

35 Cont’d…Verdu

36 War Ends At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the fighting stopped Germany signed an “Armistice” or cease fire to stop the war

37 War casualties: Russia – 1,700,000 France – 1,385,000
Britain – 908,400 Germany – 1,773,000 Austria Hungary – 1,200,000 United States 107,000 Death Totals Allies vs. Central Powers

38 Questions??????????


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