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World War I :. Battles & Technology. A World War. The Balkans, 1914. The “Powder Keg” of Europe. A Multi-Front War. Trench Warfare. Trench Warfare. “No Man’s Land”. Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun. French Renault Tank. British Tank at Ypres. U-Boats. Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats.
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World War I : Battles & Technology
The Balkans, 1914 The“Powder Keg”of Europe
Trench Warfare “No Man’s Land”
The Airplane “Squadron Over the Brenta”Max Edler von Poosch, 1917
The Flying Aces of World War I FrancescoBarraco, It. Eddie “Mick”Mannoch, Br. Eddie Rickenbacher, US Manfred vonRichtoffen, Ger.[The “RedBaron”] Rene PaukFonck, Fr. Willy Coppens deHolthust, Belg.
FlameThrowers GrenadeLaunchers
Poison Gas Machine Gun
The Western Front • http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/launch_ani_western_front.shtml
Verdun – February, 1916 • German offensive. • Each side had 500,000 casualties.
The Somme – July, 1916 • 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. • Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.
1918 • The end is near
1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies 50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died
The Somme American Cemetary, France 116,516 Americans Died
Turkish Genocide Against Armenians A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!