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World War I Life on the Battlefront The Nature of Warfare

The War on Land ► Schlieffen Plan  Germany’s plan to quickly invade France, via Belgium, and capture Paris  Then turn attention to Russia  By August 1914, Germans 35km from Paris, but pushed into N. France by French and British  Stalemate – both sides dig defensive trenches ► Eventually stretch from English Channel to Switzerland

The War on Land ► Trench Warfare  Before WWI, cavalry would charge each other on open fields with rifles and bayonets  In WWI, new weapons (i.e. machine guns, artillery, landmines) made open charges suicidal  Commanders stuck in old-fashioned mindset ► Led soldiers to slaughter ► War of attrition – repeatedly attack until one side unable to continue (exhaustion, not enough soldiers)

The War on Land

► Technology  Machine guns  Artillery (ex. Big Bertha) ► Batteries fired shells filled with explosives and shrapnel  Tanks ► Developed by 1916 to crush barbed wire and protect soldiers while crossing no man’s land ► Often stuck in mud, but improved  Poison Gas ► First used by Germans at Ypres in 1915 ► Chlorine, phosgene, or mustard gas

The War on Land

Life in the Trenches ► Cold and damp, often flooded and muddy  Trench foot ► Overrun by rats and lice ► Injuries often get infected  If injured in no man’s land, usually left to die, too dangerous to be taken back ► Constant threat of snipers and artillery shells

Life in the Trenches

The War in the Air ► At beginning, mostly aerial reconnaissance ► Soon, fighter aircraft with machine guns  “dogfights”: air battles between planes  Fighter pilots: glamourous, better living conditions  1917, average life expectancy of a fighter pilot was three weeks (no parachutes)  No Canadian air force; joined Royal Flying Corps (RFC), part of Royal Air Force (RAF)  Several Canadian “aces” – Billy Bishop; Roy Brown (shot down Red Baron)

The War in the Air ► Technology  German dirigibles (aka blimps, Zeppelins) ► Reconnaissance and bombing missions ► Britain used small ones to protect ships from submarines  Fighter Planes

The War in the Air

The War at Sea ► Britain and Germany had the strongest navies ► German U-boats (aka submarines), armed with torpedoes, hunted British warships and merchant ships  Britain had no defense at first, then developed convoy system (travelling in groups) and sonar ► Canada’s merchant marine – transported supplies to Britain, departing from Halifax

The War at Sea ► The Sinking of the Lusitania  In 1915, German U-boat sank British passenger liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland ► 1200 passengers died, many Canadians and Americans ► Germany felt justified because of ammunition onboard ► United States outraged; Germans agree to stop targeting “neutral” ships ► In 1917, Germans had resumed targeting American ships ► United States declares war on Germany April 6, 1917

The War at Sea