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Section 14-2

Section 14-2. World War I. The Fighting Starts. Trench Warfare- was used to hold off the German advance. Very bloody and deadly type of warfare, where two parallel systems of trenches were dug across France and Belgium. Armies fought for mere yards of ground over three years.

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Section 14-2

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  1. Section 14-2 World War I

  2. The Fighting Starts • Trench Warfare- was used to hold off the German advance. Very bloody and deadly type of warfare, where two parallel systems of trenches were dug across France and Belgium. Armies fought for mere yards of ground over three years. • “No man’s land”- barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire that was between the trenches.

  3. Australian Poster

  4. German Poster Think of Your Children!

  5. The Western Front: A “War of Attrition”

  6. A Multi-Front War

  7. The Western Front

  8. Trench Warfare

  9. Trench Warfare “No Man’s Land”

  10. The Airplane “Squadron Over the Brenta”Max Edler von Poosch, 1917

  11. 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.

  12. Looking for the “Red Baron?”

  13. Verdun – February, 1916 • German offensive. • Each side had 500,000 casualties.

  14. The Somme – July, 1916 • 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. • Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.

  15. TheEasternFront

  16. The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915

  17. Turkish Cavalry in Palestine

  18. AmericaJoinstheAllies

  19. The Sinking of the Lusitania

  20. The Zimmerman Telegram

  21. The YanksAre Coming!

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