Warm-up!

1. Warm-up! • What do you know about going to war/being a soldier? How do know this information (TV, movies, books, etc)? Would you fight for your country if asked? Why or why not? • What do you picture in your mind when you think about war? • Use complete sentences.

3. Reactions to going to war: RELIEFWar = relief from internal problems • Unified countries • Saw it as fighting for JUSTICE! • Millions of young men signed up • Cheered on by everyone else

4. Terms to know: • Mobilization: Getting things ready for war. • “Two-Front War”:war where major fighting takes place in two separate parts of the world • EX: Eastern front/theater and Western Front/theater (WWI)

5. Germany’s Plan: • Germany paranoid about being btw France and Russia • Plan ready for this before WWI broke out • Way to Win War: Schlieffen Plan • Goal: To defeat France quickly, then face Russia • Thought Russia would be slow to mobilize FAILURE, and Thus a STALEMATE! Underestimated Russia’s speed French and British forces stopped Germany at: Battle of the Marne

7. What country are these troops from?

8. Stopping the Germans– a new strategy Stopping the Germans

9. Inside the Trenches

12. Dulce et Decorum Est- WILFRED OWEN Gas!(7) Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets(*) just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime(*) . . . Dim, through the misty panes(*) and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering,(*) choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud(*)

13. Technology

14. Ships • Destroyers • Supply Boats

15. German U-Boats • New war Technology

16. Poison gas • Deadly • Blind/ choke victim • Burns/blisters

17. Artillery

18. Trench Diagram:

20. Tanks • Slow/ broke down easily • Later had machine guns put in • Designed to move across no man’s land

21. Planes! • Used for surveillance (spying) • New • Fired into Trenches

22. Day in the Life of a Trench Soldier… • Stand-To • Riffle cleaning/ Breakfast • Inspection • Chores • Leisure (empty time) • Stand-To

24. Worries: Trench foot Rats

26. War Statistics: what did the most men die for?

27. Trench Warfare • The purpose of trench warfare was to slow down the opposing force.As a result, fighting during WWI lasted a long time, resulting in many more deaths.

28. Trench Warfare • Key Terms: • Stalemate—a position where no decisive action can be made, a deadlock. • Trench Warfare—style of fighting where sides dug into earth to fight in built-in bunkers • Total War—the complete dedication of a country to a war cause

29. Assignment • Pretend you are a World War I soldier fighting in the Trenches. Write a letter home to your family describing what life is like. Be sure to include details that we have discussed today like the new technology and mass human loss. Be creative! • You must use complete sentences and your letter should be at leastapage long.