The Great War - Frontier Central School District



The Great War…this shouldn’t have happened

-Europeans thought war was a thing of the past…but others saw a disaster on the horizon.

-Germans create the VON SHLIEFFEN PLAN

(hit France first then go after Russia)

- Austrian Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand gets shot by a Serbian NATIONALIST (GAVRILLO PRINCIP)

-Austria wants revenge, on Serbia.

-Serbia has a big friend, Russia.

-Russia mobilizes it army…declares war on Austria, Austria declares war on Russia, Germany declares war on Russia…invades neutral Belgium to invade France.

-Germany invades France, Britain help France…game on

-The war bogs down into trench warfare

New Weapons

Tank: Brits invented, massive potential

Airplane: first used for observation, then for deadly combat

Machine gun: could fire thousands of round a min. Anyone could use it.

Chemical Gas: invented by the

Germans…awful. (WMD)

German U-Boat – Revolutionized Naval Warfare….Germans sank hundreds of ships

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