1. Baltimore Polytechnic Institute January 10, 2011 U.S. History Mr. Green

2. The students will identify the new weapons and the medical problems faced in World War I explaining the impact of new tools of war Announcement: Warm-up Question: Examine the graph on page 408 and answer the following: 1. Which country suffered the greatest number of military casualties in WWI? 2. What might account for the relatively low number of American casualties in WWI?

3. Fighting “Over There” Many new soldiers (doughboys) were impressed with the sights and sounds of Paris New Weapons 1. Big Bertha-German cannon that shot up to 75 miles 2. zeppelins-dropped bombs on English coastal towns, to big and slow 3. Machine guns-fired 600 rounds per minute 4. Poison gas-gas masks became standard 5. Tanks 6. Planes 7. Scout ballons

4. Medical Care during the war Soldiers experienced dysentery, lice, rats, and polluted water, lack of sleep, shell shock Trench foot Trench mouth

5. November 3, 1918 German soldiers refused to fight (mutinied) Kaiser abdicated his thrown Socialist called Germany a republic 11 th hour of the 11 th day of the 11 th month in 1918-cease fire to WWI or armistice

6. Answer the following questions and submit for a class-work grade. 1. What new weapons of mechanized warfare threatened those in combat? 2. What did the war cost in terms of the number of a. civilian deaths? b. military deaths? c. injuries? d. refugees? 3. What were the estimated economic costs?

7. WWI War Chart-begin in class.