2. World War I: The Beginning Mr. Bach Accelerated World History Hudson High School

3. A Family Affair Three Cousins –King George V (England) –Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany) –Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) Willy, Nicky, and Georgie

4. War Goals Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire England France Russia United States

5. The Battle Plans France – Plan XVII (elan vital) Austria-Hungary – Plans B and R Russia – Plans G and A (19) United States Germany – Schlieffen Plan

6. The Schlieffen Plan

7. German Atrocities in Belgium

8. The Schlieffen Plan Falls Apart The Battle of the Marne –The Western Front The Battle of Tannenburg –The Eastern Front

9. The Western Front

10. A Multi-Front War

11. Trench Warfare

12. “No Man’s Land”

13. The Western Front Today

14. A New War Machine Guns Trench Warfare Barbed Wire Hand Grenades Heavy Artillery Gas Attacks (Gas Masks) Tanks Airplanes U-Boats

15. French Renault Tank

16. U-Boats

17. 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.

18. The Zeppelin

19. Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers

20. Poison Gas Machine Gun