1. The War Topic: Battles Objective: Describing key WWI battles
Essential Question: What are the key battles and arenas of war?

2. The Schlieffen Plan Germany’s Plan
Attack and defeat France in the West
Rush east to fight Russia
Russia lagged in railroads
Speed was vital to plan

3. Schlieffen Plan

4. Western Front Deadlocked region in northern France Battle of the Marne
Allies regrouped and attacked Germans
German retreat
Significance: left Schlieffen Plan in ruins
Verdun
Germans attack French, each side lost more than 300,000 men
Battle of the Somme
British respond to Verdun, attack Germans
Day 1: 20,000 British dead
In the end: Half a million lives lost on each side

5. Trench Warfare

6. Stalemate
Deadlock
No action can be taken, no progress can be made

7. Eastern Front Along German and Russian border Tannenburg
Russians launch attack on Austria and Germany
Germany counter attacks and crushes Russian army
Russians put up better fight against A-H but eventually are pushed out of A-H

9. Gallipolli Campaign Plan:
Allies would secure the Dardanelles in the Ottoman Empire
Take Constantinople
Defeat the Turks
Establish supply line to Russia

10. Gallipolli Campaign What happened: Turned into another stalemate
Dug trenches, fought from Feb-Dec
Allies give up, evacuate
250,000 Allied casualties

13. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
U-Boats – German Submarines
German U-Boats would sink w/o warning any ship in the waters around Britain
In response to British blockade of German coast
Lusitania – British passenger ship that Germans sank, claiming it carried ammunition – it did!
Killed 1,198 people

14. US Enters the War
April 2, 1917
Zimmerman Telegram – intercepted telegram from Germany’s foreign secretary to Mexico
Germany would help Mexico regain lost land from US if they joined the Central Powers