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1914-1918: The World at War. Causes of the War. Two Armed Camps!. Allied Powers :. Central Powers :. The Major Players: 1914-17. Allied Powers :. Central Powers :. Nicholas II [Rus]. Wilhelm II [Ger]. George V [Br]. Victor Emmanuel II [It]. Enver Pasha [Turkey]. Pres. Poincare [Fr].
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Two Armed Camps! Allied Powers: Central Powers:
The Major Players: 1914-17 Allied Powers: Central Powers: Nicholas II [Rus] Wilhelm II [Ger] George V [Br] Victor Emmanuel II [It] Enver Pasha[Turkey] Pres. Poincare [Fr] Franz Josef [A-H]
The Assassin: GavriloPrincip
Trench Warfare “No Man’s Land”
The Somme – July, 1916 • 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. • Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.
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 “RedBaron”] Rene PaukFonck, Fr. Willy Coppens deHolthust, Belg.
FlameThrowers GrenadeLaunchers
Poison Gas Machine Gun
The Somme American Cemetary, France 116,516 Americans Died