New technology and strategies

1. New technology and strategies American Military Involvement

2. Trench Warfare • Western Front • Networks of trenches stretched from the English Channel to the Swiss Border • “No Man’s Land”; area between the trenches

3. Trenches

5. Trench Warfare • To break through the enemy lines; massive artillery barrages opened fire • Brave bayonet wielding soldiers would scramble out and race across no man’s land • Hurled grenades • Result: disaster; hardly destroyed the enemies trenches • Massive deaths

7. Conditions in a Trench • Lack of food and water • Rats, bugs, diseases, dead bodies • Standing in mud and water • Trench foot from standing in the wet mud for weeks. • Diseases and infection spread.

8. Trench Foot

9. All Quiet on the Western Front http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciq9ts02ci4&list=PL813BB3BE40151CF1

10. Technology • 1917, millions of lives have been lost • New technologies • New strategies • Trench Warfare • Troops dug themselves into the ground.

11. Technology • Unsuccessful at attacking trenches; a new approach was looked at • Poison Gas • Gas Masks • Tank - very slow - mechanically unreliable - easy to destroy 4. Airplanes - used mainly to observe enemy activities - dropped small bombs - attached machine guns - dog fights 5. Zeppelins - German airships used as bombers

12. Zeppelins

13. Allies airplane Central Powers airplane

14. American Support • Americans and Victory • “Doughboys” American soldiers • Inexperienced • Fresh • Presence boosted allies’ morale • American Expeditionary Force • United States armed forces fought along side the French and British in the last year of the war. • Forces led by General John J. Pershing