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The Great War 1914-1918. The War to End All Wars. The Red Baron. British Tank at Ypres. French Renault Tank. The Airplane. “ Squadron Over the Brenta” Max Edler von Poosch, 1917. The Flying Aces of World War I. Francesco Barraco, It. Eddie “Mick” Mannoch, Br. Eddie Rickenbacher, US.
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The Great War1914-1918 The War to End All Wars
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 “Red Baron”] Willy Coppens deHolthust, Belg. Rene PaukFonck, Fr.
FlameThrowers GrenadeLaunchers
Poison Gas Machine Gun
The Commanders • France- Joffre, Petain, Foch • Britain-Haig • Germany- Hindenberg and Ludendorff
Fighting in Africa Black Soldiers in the German Schutztruppen[German E. Africa] British Sikh Mountain Gunners
Fighting in Africa 3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade
The Middle East • Lawrence of Arabia • Gallipoli- 1915- Winston Churchill
The Atlantic • U-boats • Unrestricted Submarine warfare • Lusitania • Woodrow Wilson • Sussex Pledge- 1915
US Enters the War • 1917 Unrestricted Submarine Warfare • Zimmerman Note • “Make the World Safe for Democracy” • April 2, 1917
US state of affairs • Army? • Convoys • Propaganda • The Draft • Total War and Bonds