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World War I

World War I. How did it start. Nationalism Militarism Alliances Imperialism. Otto von Bismark. United separate states into one nation William I (kaiser). Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip. Schlieffen Plan. The Western Front. Mustard Gas.

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World War I

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  1. World War I

  2. How did it start • Nationalism • Militarism • Alliances • Imperialism

  3. Otto von Bismark • United separate states into one nation • William I (kaiser)

  4. Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip

  5. Schlieffen Plan

  6. The Western Front

  7. Mustard Gas • (1) Vera Brittain describing a field camp hospital in Etaples in 1918 in her book A Testament of Youth. by Vera Brittain.Sometimes in the middle of the night we have to turn people out of bed and make them sleep on the floor to make room for the more seriously ill ones who have come down from the line. We have heaps of gassed cases at present : there are 10 in this ward alone. I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war, and the orators who talk so much about going on no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case - to say nothing of 10 cases of mustard gas in its early stages - could see the poor things all burnt and blistered all over with great suppurating blisters, with blind eyes - sometimes temporally, some times permanently - all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, their voices a whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they are going to choke.

  8. Verdun

  9. Verdun • 12 hour artillery barrage using more then 2 million shells • 1 million soldiers of the German Fifth Army advance on 200,000 French • Over 1 million casualties

  10. Allied counteroffensiveThe Somme

  11. Dogfights • Aces (Red Baron) 80 kills • Ed Rickenbacker 26 kills

  12. Woodrow Wilson

  13. The Lusitania

  14. NOTICE! Travellers intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or any of her allies, are liable to destruction in those waters and that travellers sailing in the war zone on ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk. IMPERIAL GERMAN EMBASSY WASHINGTON, D.C., APRIL 22, 1915.

  15. Zimmermann Note

  16. End of the War • November of 1918 • Wilson’s 14 Points (League of Nations) • War reparations • Treaty of Versailles (June 1919)

  17. Technology and New Weapons of World War I • Directions: Create a 7 tab book about 7 new weapons used during World War I. Each technology must include information about how and why the weapon was used in warfare, and during what battle it was introduced. • Due

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