1. WHAT’S UP HUN?
WHAT UP TOMMY?

3. German Pickelhaube

4. WHY WAS THIS THE GREATEST WAR THE WORLD HAD EVER KNOWN
WHY WAS THIS THE GREATEST WAR THE WORLD HAD EVER KNOWN? WHY WERE THERE SO MANY CASUALTIES?

5. “Killed In Action”

6. The Western Front

7. Serbia Britain Austria-Hungary 1,200,000 DEAD 3,620,000 WOUNDED
Germany
1,773,000 DEAD
4,210,000 WOUNDED
Russia
1,700,000 DEAD
4,950,000 WOUNDED
France
1,375,000 DEAD
4,260,000 WOUNDED

8. Weapons of World War I

9. Machine Guns

12. British Mark II Tanks

14. Phosgene &
Chlorine Gas
Mustard Gas

17. German Poison Gas Attack Warning Bell (Ypres, Belgium)

19. British Anti-German War Propaganda Sketch

20. FLAMETHROWERS

21. Aviation

25. Orville & Wilbur Wright
Developed 1st viable flying machine in 1903
By 1905 they tweaked it to fly a sustained amount of time
French took this technology & developed it in Europe
Germany makes 1st military fighter plane mounted with machine gun

29. 1st Flight; Dec. 17, 1903 Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

30. U.S. Army Demo; 1908

31. The Red Baron (80 Strikes): Baron Manfred Von Richtoffen
Famous German WW1 Ace Pilot. Had more recorded air
strikes compared to any other WW1 pilot.

34. American WW1 Flying Ace: Eddie Rickenbacker (26 Combat Victories)

35. 1915
80 British Reconnaissance planes helped target German trench lines in the 1st big air battle of WWI.

37. The Western Front

44. Stalemate
This trench warfare strategy employed by both sides led to a stalemate or deadlock for much of the war along the Western Front.
It was not until the United States entered into the fray that the Allies began to gain enough momentum to turn the tide of the war in their favor.

45. Summer Flooding & Rats

47. Trench Foot

48. No Man’s Land: Area Between enemy trenches

52. Erich Remarque
German born author who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
WWI veteran injured during the Great War on the Western Front
Became award winning author & relocated to Switzerland after Hitler’s rise to power in Germany
Moved to U.S.A. in 1939

53. All Quiet On the Western Front
Ant-War Novel published in 1929
Purpose was to tell about the horrors of war from a soldier’s point of view
Turned into a movie which won the Academy Award for Best Picture
Remade into a 1979 CBS TV movie