WWI Through Pictures Notes
WWI Through Pictures Notes
Slide One: Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand II
Slide Two: Arch Duke and Wife in Car
Slide Three: Arch Duke and Wife
Slide Four: Mug Shot of Gavrilo Princip
Slide Five: Artists rendering of Assassination
Slide Six: Gavrilo Princip Arrested
- Actual photo moments after the assassination
Slide Seven: Funeral
Slide Eight: The Car Today
Slide Nine: Bloody Shirt
Slide Ten A: The March to War
- Steps to World War
o 1. A-H very upset want to discipline Serbia
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▪ A-H issue Serbia ultimatum- Let us investigate and punish or war will come
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o 2. Russia mobilizes in support of ___________________
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o 4. Germany next declares war on France (August 3 1914). Why?- Want to knock France out of war before full power of Russia is mobilized. (Schlieffen Plan)
o 5. England hesitates
• When war begins all powers think it will be very short “I’ll be home by Christmas” Why?- _________________________________________
| |Entente |Alliance |
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| |Russia= 1 million men |Germany= 850,000 |
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| |French= 700,000 men |A-H= 450,000 men |
|Armies of Powers 1914 | | |
| |England= 250,000 men |* But have superior equipment, coordination|
| | |and speed |
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Slide Ten B: The Schlieffen Plan
- German Plan: What is major Fear? ________________________
- Plan devised in 1905 calls for major offensive in West…Knock France out in 2 weeks then focus on Russia (Believe it will take Russia longer to mobilize)
- Sweeping Move: Send 7 men through Belgium for every 1 straight into France
- Goal is to suck French almost into Germany and then come behind them with major force!
Why Fails
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- Only sends to Belgium for every 1 in France
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- Still make it within 15 miles of Paris! (Stopped at battle of Marne)
Slide Eleven: Trench System
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- By Winter Front extends 300 miles from Switzerland to N. Sea in Belgium
- For next three years neither side advances more than 10 miles
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Slide Twelve: Trench System
- Dig in 100 yards from each other.
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- At any moment you could be under attack or asked to go “Over the Top”
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- Rats everywhere
Slide Thirteen to Fifteen: Inside Trenches
- Keep head Low
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- Some are clearly better than others (Wooden floors, multiple levels)
Slide Sixteen to Eighteen: Barbed Wire
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Slide Nineteen-Twenty Five: New Weapons
- New Weapons: Artillery and Destruction
- Ex: Big Bertha guns- Take 9 tractors to move 1 gun into position
Slide Twenty Six-Twenty Seven: New Weapons
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Slide Twenty Eight: Rest
- All romance and patriotism of 1914 soon dies away
- Glory of 1914 dissolves into
Slide Twenty Nine: The End of the Front
- The Front extended some three hundred miles
- North Sea near Belgium to Switzerland
- Fight for three years over about ten miles of land!
o EXPANSION of WAR
▪ Nov. 1914 Ottoman Empire joins Central Powers (Fear Russia)
▪ Italy changes sides 1915 (Treaty of London) (Secretly agree to change in exchange for A-H land after war)
▪ Bulgaria joins Central Powers Sept. 1915 (Want Serbian Land)
▪ Romania joins Entente Aug. 1916 (Want Transylvania)
Slide Thirty-Thirty One: Machine Guns
- Extremely effective new weapon
- Can cut down an offensive in seconds
o EXAMPLES
▪ Verdun: Germans want decisive offensive in West
• Attack Verdun in February of 1916
• Battle lasts until next December and )____________ are killed (Only advance a few miles!)
▪ Somme: British offensive in July 1916
• Supposed to relieve pressure from Verdun
• On first day ____________ British casualties (21,000 deaths)
• Over ____________ die in battle
• Advance line only a few miles!
Slide Thirty Two-Thirty Three: Grenade launchers
- Grenade crossbow launcher
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Slide Thirty Four-Thirty Five: Periscope
- Keep your head low at all times! Avoid Snipers
Slide Thirty Six: Mines
- Some huge like this
- Some small
- Some still found in France today!
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Slide Thirty Seven: Officers Quarters
- WWI Generals horrible on both sides
- Strategy not as
Slide Thirty Eight A: Rat Hunting
- Come for bodies and bread
- Bring with them disease
Slide Thirty Eight B- Forty: Tanks
- British use first (Send Shipment 1916)
- Prove too big and slow to be effective at first
Slide Forty One-Forty Three: Air Power
- Red Baron:
Slide Forty Four- Forty Seven: Dogs
- Bring aid
- Attack!
Slide Forty Eight-Fifty One: Gas Warfare
- Horrific Effects
Slide Fifty Two-Fifty Seven: Injuries of Gas
Slide Fifty Eight: No Man’s Land
- Barren land between trenches
- Full of Craters, bodies, mines, barbed wire!
Slide Fifty Nine-Sixty Seven: Injury and Death
Slide Forty Six-Fifty Three: Gas
Slide Fifty Four- Sixty Five: Injury and Death
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