2. The War in Europe

3. A Multi-Front War

4. The Western Front

5. New Weapons  The machine gun  Was able to fire hundreds of rounds per minute  Changed warfare due to the destruction these new weapons caused  Cut men down, forced trench warfare

6. Trench Warfare  New weapons and military strategy forced armies to dig deep trenches and fight a defensive war  No Man’s Land – Strip of land that separated the trenches of opposing armies along the western front during World War I

7. Trench Warfare

10. Trenches

13. No Man’s land Full of barbed wire, land mines, and open to enemy fire.

14. White areas, no man’s land

15. Conditions in the Trenches  Lice  Rats  Mud  Trench Foot

16. Trench Foot

17. Verdun – February, 1916 e German offensive. e Each side had 500,000 casualties. e German offensive. e Each side had 500,000 casualties.

18. The Somme – July, 1916 e 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. e Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months. e 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. e Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.

19. War Is HELL !!

20. New Weapons  The tank was a new weapon to help cross ‘No Man’s Land’  The first tanks brought terror to the German troops  Developed to counter the machine gun’s impact  Unreliable, Slow

22. French Renault Tank

23. British Tank at Ypres

24. Poison Gas  Against the rules of war?  Spread by artillery shells or canisters

25. Victims of poison gas attacks

26. New Weapons  Airplane  Used for reconnaissance  Dropped bombs – manually  Romanticized, did not have a huge effect on this war  Big impact on WWII

27. The Airplane “Squadron Over the Brenta” Max Edler von Poosch, 1917

28. The Flying Aces of World War I Eddie Rickenbacher, US Francesco Barraco, It. Rene Pauk Fonck, Fr. Manfred von Richtoffen, Ger. [The “Red Baron”] Willy Coppens de Holthust, Belg. Eddie “Mick” Mannoch, Br.

29. The Zeppelin

30. Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers

31. U-Boats

32. War on the Seas German U-Boats caused havoc throughout the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean

33. Torpedoes fired at Allied Ships

34. Allied ships sunk by U-Boats

35. Artillery Ammunition

36. English Navy controlled the Seas

37. Death and Destruction German cemetery

38. Death and Destruction German dead at Verdun

39. Death and Destruction Results of French shells

40. A Beautiful forest

44. CountryDeadWoundedMissingTotal Australia58,150152,170-210,320 Austria-Hungary922,0003,600,000855,2835,377,283 Belgium102,000450,000-552,000 Britain658,7002,032,150359,1503,050,000 Bulgaria87,500152,39027,029266,919 Canada56,500149,700-206,200 France1,359,0004,200,000361,6505,920,650 Germany1,600,0004,065,000103,0005,768,000 Greece5,00021,0001,00027,000 India43,20065,1755,875114,250 Italy689,000959,100-1,424,660 Japan30090731,210 Montenegro3,00010,0007,00020,000 New Zealand16,13040,750-56,880 Portugal7,22213,75112,31833,291 Romania335,706120,00080,000535,706 Russia1,700,0005,000,000-6,700,000 Serbia45,000133,148152,958331,106 Turkey250,000400,000-650,000 USA58,480189,95514,290262,725 Totals7,996,88821,755,1961,979,55631,508,200