1. Life During the Great War

2. Alliances
Triple Alliance
Triple Entente

3. Allied Powers
Central Powers
World War I

5. FEELINGS ABOUT WAR Jubilation Celebration Excitement
“Be home for Christmas”
Glorious
Honorable

6. Cheerful German soldiers on the train to the front
#20

7. Advance of French soldiers into the war surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd
#21

9. Why Was World war I different?

10. #38

11. British Machine Guns
#39

12. Indian Gun Crew
#40

15. RESULTS? TWO FRONT WAR: STALEMATE

16. #24

19. German soldiers in their trenches near Antwerp (September 1914)
#25

20. Dead bodies in a trench after an attack
#27

21. German soldiers after rat hunting in their trenches
#32

23. German soldiers lice hunting in the trenches near Reims (1915)
#33

25. A view of the battlefield during the preparations of the attack
#28

27. German storm troopers running through the barbed wire entanglement
#29

32. German Artillery
#41

33. Allied Howitzer
#42

38. #43

39. A British Tank
#44

40. German Zeppelin
#45

41. French Spad
#47

42. British Sopwith Camel
#48

43. Chlorine Gas
#51

45. Blinded by Mustard Gas
#53

46. Phosgene Gas Mask
#52

47. German soldiers and horses and mules wearing gasmasks
#30

48. German Carrier Pigeons in Gas Protected Boxes
#56

50. German Radio at the Western Front
#57

51. German U-Boat
#58

53. Battle of Verdun and Somme
2,000,000 Bombs dropped before the battle.
20,000 British die on the first day of the attack
40,000 Wounded
Over 1 Million will eventually die in a battle that lasts for 3 months
More then 2 million people involved over a 30 mile front.
VERDUN:
Over 300,000 British Die
Over 300,000 Germans Die
Both Great Britain and Germany suffer over 750,000 wounded.
Front lines move less then 12 miles.