Warm-up! What do you know about going to war/being a soldier? How do know this information (TV, movies, books, etc)? Would you fight for your country if asked? Why or why not? What do you picture in your mind when you think about war? Use complete sentences.

Reactions to going to war: RELIEF War = relief from internal problems Unified countries Saw it as fighting for JUSTICE! Millions of young men signed up Cheered on by everyone else

Terms to know: Mobilization: Getting things ready for war. “Two-Front War”: war where major fighting takes place in two separate parts of the world EX: Eastern front/theater and Western Front/theater (WWI)

Germany’s Plan: FAILURE, and Thus a STALEMATE! Germany paranoid about being btw France and Russia Plan ready for this before WWI broke out Way to Win War: Schlieffen Plan Goal: To defeat France quickly, then face Russia Thought Russia would be slow to mobilize FAILURE, and Thus a STALEMATE! Underestimated Russia’s speed French and British forces stopped Germany at: Battle of the Marne

What country are these troops from?

Stopping the Germans– a new strategy

Inside the Trenches

Dulce et Decorum Est- WILFRED OWEN Gas!(7) Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets(*) just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime(*) . . . Dim, through the misty panes(*) and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering,(*) choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud(*)

Technology

Ships Destroyers Supply Boats

German U-Boats New war Technology

Poison gas Deadly Blind/ choke victim Burns/blisters

Artillery

Trench Diagram:

What improvements would you hve made to the trench layout?

Tanks Slow/ broke down easily Later had machine guns put in Designed to move across no man’s land

Planes! Used for surveillance (spying) New Fired into Trenches

Day in the Life of a Trench Soldier… Stand-To Riffle cleaning/ Breakfast Inspection Chores Leisure (empty time)

Worries: Trench foot Rats

War Statistics: what did the most men die for? Offense Number of Sentences Number of Executions Desertion 2,004 272 Sleeping at post 449 2 Cowardice 213 14 Disobedience 120 4 Mutiny 55 15 Casting away arms 6

Trench Warfare The purpose of trench warfare was to slow down the opposing force. As a result, fighting during WWI lasted a long time, resulting in many more deaths.

Trench Warfare Key Terms: Stalemate—a position where no decisive action can be made, a deadlock. Trench Warfare—style of fighting where sides dug into earth to fight in built-in bunkers Total War—the complete dedication of a country to a war cause

Assignment Pretend you are a World War I soldier fighting in the Trenches. Write a letter home to your family describing what life is like. Be sure to include details that we have discussed today like the new technology and mass human loss. Be creative! You must use complete sentences and your letter should be at least a page long.