1. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/photos/suspected-chemical-attack-in-syria- kills-at-least-100-1.4056320

2. Review Questions from Yesterday Lesson – New Type of Warfare
APRIL 7, 2017
Review Questions from Yesterday
Take Out Questions & Map
Lesson – New Type of Warfare
Life in the Trenches Readings

3. Should there be rules in war?

5. “Paris for Lunch, Dinner in St. Petersburg”
German strategy to wage a two front war – called the Schlieffen Plan
Germany believed they could fend off Russia in the east while it defeated France in the west with a lightening-speed massive attack.
Relied on German armies invading neutral Belgium to capture Paris.

6. Two Critical Assumptions
It would take Russia time to mobilize its huge army
REALITY – Russia’s forces were prepared for battle when Germany declared war.
2. Britain would remain neutral.
REALITY – Britain had promised to defend France it was attacked AND the Great Powers had agreed not to attack neutral Belgium.

7. Failure of the Schlieffen Plan
Germany was within 50 kilometers of Paris.
Soldiers were exhausted by pace of attack through Belgium and France.
Soldiers in the west had been pulled to reinforce defences in the east.
Allies stopped Germany’s advance at the Battle of the Marne in September 1914.

8. Locked In
Failure of Schlieffen Plan forced both German and French/British troops to dig into trenches on the Western Front.
Neither were able to advance.
STALEMATE!

9. The Trench System
The German armies dug defensive line of trenches along the river Somme and into Belgium
British and French dug their own system of trenches to face them.
Trenches stretched from North Sea to the Switzerland Border
Between the enemies lay no man’s land – wasteland of corpses, barbed wire and mud.

11. 19th Century Warfare Had expected personal man-to-man combat.
Foot soldiers, supported by cavalry would try to outmanouevre the enemy to take control of the battlefield.

12. Industrialized War
New technologies developed at the beginning of the 20th Century changed the way wars were fought.
Open warfare was replaced with trench warfare.
War became industrialized, modernized and impersonal
Weapons of mass destruction could kill masses.

13. Machine Gun

14. The War on Land

15. Massive Artillery

17. Tanks

18. Chemical Warfare

20. War of Attrition
Although soldiers were using modern weapons, commanders failed to change their tactics.
World War I became a War of Attrition that lasted four years.
One side would attack the other until one was completely exhausted and unable to continue.
Resulted in Slaughter.

21. The War on Land

22. The War on Land

23. The War on Land

24. The War on Land

25. Slaughter Verdun, 1916 – 700,000 Casualties
The Somme, Million Casualties
Third Battle of Ypres, ,000 Casualties.
12,000 at Tyne Cot in Belgium; names of people missing.

28. Life in the Trenches

29. Life in the Trenches

30. Life in the Trenches

31. Life in the Trenches