WWI – The Great War “Once I lead these people into war, they’ll forget there was ever such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fabric of our national life.” Woodrow Wilson, April 1917
Europe in 1914
Economic & Imperial Rivalries
Aggressive Nationalism
Archduke Franz Ferdinand & His Family
The Assassination: Sarajevo
The Assassin: Gavrilo Princip
Who’s To Blame?
The Schlieffen Plan
Mobilization Home by Christmas! No major war in 50 years! Nationalism! It's a long way to Tipperary, It's a long way to go; To the sweetest girl I know! Goodbye, Piccadilly, Farewell, Leicester Square, It's a long, long way to Tipperary, But my heart's right there!
Recruitment Posters
America Joins the Allies
The Sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmerman Telegram
The Yanks Are Coming!
Americans in the Trenches
The Western Front A “War of Attrition”
The Western Front
A Multi-Front War
Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare “No Man’s Land”
Verdun – February, 1916 German offensive. Each side had 500,000 casualties.
War Is HELL !!
The Somme – July, 1916 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.
Sacrifices in War
Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun
Women and the War Effort
Financing the War
For Recruitment
Munitions Workers
French Women Factory Workers
German Women Factory Workers
Working in the Fields
A Woman Ambulance Driver
Red Cross Nurses
Women in the Army Auxiliary
Russian Women Soldiers
Spies “Mata Hari” Real Name: Margareetha Geertruide Zelle German Spy!
Posters: Wartime Propaganda
Australian Poster
American Poster
Financing the War
German Poster Think of Your Children!
New Technology
French Renault Tank
British Tank at Ypres
U-Boats
“Squadron Over the Brenta” Max Edler von Poosch, 1917 The Airplane “Squadron Over the Brenta” Max Edler von Poosch, 1917
The Flying Aces of World War I Eddie Rickenbacher, US Francesco Barraco, It. Eddie “Mick” Mannoch, Br. Manfred von Richtoffen, Ger. [The “Red Baron”] Rene Pauk Fonck, Fr. Willy Coppens de Holthust, Belg.
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The Zeppelin
Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers
Poison Gas Machine Gun
The Armistice is Signed! 11 a.m., November 11, 1918 The Armistice is Signed!
9,000,000 Dead
The Somme American Cemetary, France 116,516 Americans Died
World War I Casualties