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Opening Task

Opening Task. Read the poem “The Man He Killed” Compare the message in the poem to the messages you discovered in the Xmas Truce. Day 90+93 Objectives. Analyze the causes of Trench Warfare Describe the conditions experienced in Trench Warfare from 1914-1917

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Opening Task

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  1. Opening Task • Read the poem “The Man He Killed” • Compare the message in the poem to the messages you discovered in the Xmas Truce

  2. Day 90+93 Objectives • Analyze the causes of Trench Warfare • Describe the conditions experienced in Trench Warfare from 1914-1917 • Examine the impact of industrial inventions during WWI

  3. Old Style of Warfare... How was it viewed??

  4. What can stop a Cavalry?

  5. Trench Warfare forms

  6. Trench Warfare= War of Attrition

  7. Everyone did this!

  8. Trench Diagram

  9. Trench Warfare 1914-1917

  10. Overheadview ofTrenches

  11. Verdun 1916 -420K dead -800K gassed or wounded -Highest deaths per yard ever

  12. No Man's Land Flanders Field…France

  13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPtVNDvwGMo

  14. 1916 Siege At Verdun

  15. Problems w/Trench Warfare

  16. Trench Foot

  17. Weapons of WWI • Machine Gun • Tank • Mortars/Cannons • Airplane • Chemical Warfare (MG) • Submarine

  18. British Machine Gunners

  19. Tanks 1916

  20. Cannons

  21. Paris Gun!!

  22. Airplanes in WWI?

  23. The worst Invention from World War I 

  24. British Soldiers blinded by Mustard Gas

  25. German U-Boats

  26. U-Boats are a Big Deal • They almost win WWI for Germany… why? • Instead, they will lose WWI for Germany…why? • 1915…British liner Lusitanian sunk • 1,200 drowned, 118 Americans • USA joins Allied Powers in 1917

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