1. WORLD WAR 1 Grade 8 Na Young

2. What is world war 1? The First World War, originally called the Great War, raged from 1914 to 1918. Mostly fought in western Europe in muddy, bloody trenches, WWI saw the introduction of the machine gun and poison gas into battle.

3. The leaders of allied in world war 1 Russia Nicholas II France Raymond Poincaré - President of France Georges Clemenceau - Prime Minister of France United Kingdom George V- king of the United Kingdom H.H. Asquith- prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Lloyd George- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

4. Battle of the Somme The Battle of the Somme started in July 1st 1916. It happened in Verdun, France. The five-month Battle of the Somme in 1916 resulted in more than one million casualties for Allied and German troops and has come to symbolize the bloody trench stalemates of the First World War.

5. Battles of the Somme The Battle of the Somme started in July 1st 1916. It lasted until November 1916. This one battle had a marked effect on overall casualty figures and seemed to epitomize the futility of trench warfare. The Somme is an area in France. The battle was planned as an offensive by the British under General Sir Douglas Haig. Its objective, in part, was to relieve the extraordinary pressure on the French line further to the south as a result of German efforts at Verdun. On the first day of fighting 5.8000British troops were killed and wounded. The Battle of the Somme as the worst day in deaths and casualties fro the British in military history.

6. Battle of Ypres There were three battles of Ypres. The first battle took place between October 30 – November 24, 1914. British, French and Belgium troops were outnumbered by the Germans. The Allies won the battle after 34 days of fighting. The second battle took place between April 22 - May 25, 1915. The Germans used a new weapon, gas. They used poisonous chlorine gas, it was heavier than air and flowed over the ground and into allied trenches. So the Allies had 60,000 casualties, the Germans had a total of 35,000 casualties. The third battle was held on July 31 – November 10 1917.On June 17, the British took the village of Messines. Between July 31 - November 10, an extreme amount of rainfall and artillery fire made the battlefield into a muddy swamp. It was almost impossible to march across. The Germans, who were in concrete bunkers, killed a lot of the Allied troops with mustard gas and machine guns. The Allies then stopped their offensive. In the end the Allies only gained 8km, the casualties totaled 250,000 soldiers for each side.

8. Weapons of WW 1 Several weapons were used in World War 1. - Zeppelin The Zeppelin, was an airship that was used during the early part of the war in bombing raids by the Germans. They carried machine guns and bombs. However, they were abandoned because they were easy to shoot out of the sky. -Tank Tanks were used for the first time in the First World at the Battle of the Somme. The first tank was called 'Little Willie' and needed a crew of 3. Its maximum speed was 3mph and it could not cross trenches. -Machine Gun Machine guns needed 4-6 men to work them and had to be on a flat surface. They had the fire-power of 100 guns. Large field guns had a long range and could deliver devastating blows to the enemy but needed up to 12 men to work them. They fired shells which exploded on impact.

10. Trench Warfare WW1 What is trench warfare? Trench warfare was used primarily in the Civil War and World War I. Soldiers would dig trenches and get into them to avoid enemy fire. Trenches had often poor conditions and many soldiers died from diseases because of the poor weather conditions and the rat’s Trench life was terrible. The enemy would throw grenades and bombs that would make craters in the trenches