1. An Arms Auction

2.  To work together to identify and ‘acquire’ weapons that the group thinks would benefit soldiers engaged in trench warfare during WWI.  To explore the group’s decisions in depth and compare their findings to actual information about each weapon.

3. 1. I will assign you a number between 1-6.  Once each student has a number, join your number group.  Your group will be assigned a country. You will become the military consultants for that country. Triple Alliance:Austria-Hungary Germany Italy Triple Entente:Britain France Russia

4. 2. Assign each group member a job:  Financial controller – keeps track of the money (you will begin with $35,000)  Public representative – presents the bids  Weapons accountants – tracks the items purchased

5. 3. Before round one of the auction you will hear a brief description of each item.  As a group discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each item.  Try to develop a purchase strategy.  What items will you focus on? Why? How much are you willing to spend on them?

6. The sale of single weapons

18. The sale of weapon pairs

29. The sale of weapons in triplicate

40. Count how many of each weapon you have

41.  Airplane...………………………………………………….………..75 pts each   Artillery…………………………………………………………….500 pts each   Cavalry………………………………………………………………25 pts each   Chlorine Gas………………………………………………………...50 pts each   Dreadnought………………………………………………………..75 pts each   Flame thrower.……………………………………………………100 pts each   Machine gun.……………….……………………………………1,000 pts each   Repeating rifle…………………….……………………………….250 pts each   Submarine……………………….…………………………………100 pts each   Tank…………………………..……………………………………..200 pts each

42.  In 1914  airplanes were still very primitive  Tanks not invented at start of the war  Trenches were vulnerable to artillery (bomb) attacks  Machine guns were useful when solders “went over the top” and crossed “no mans land” – the area in between trenches  Canadian Ross Rifle – failure as it often jammed in muddy conditions.  Machine guns were main reasons for stalemate. Firing machine guns meant leaving trenches = sudden death

43.  Stalemate – when neither side has enough offensive power remaining to achieve a victory  Attrition - a ttrition warfare is a military strategy in which a side wins the war by wearing down their enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses of personnel and material. The war will usually be won by the side with greater amount of these materials.

44. Independently, complete the Technology in WWI – The Basics Worksheet