2. Section 14-2 World War I

3. The Fighting Starts Trench Warfare- was used to hold off the German advance. Very bloody and deadly type of warfare, where two parallel systems of trenches were dug across France and Belgium. Armies fought for mere yards of ground over three years. “No man’s land”- barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire that was between the trenches.

4. Australian Poster

5. German Poster Think of Your Children!

6. The Western Front: A “War of Attrition”

7. A Multi-Front War

8. The Western Front

9. Trench Warfare

10. “No Man’s Land”

11. The Airplane “Squadron Over the Brenta” Max Edler von Poosch, 1917

12. The Flying Aces of World War I Eddie Rickenbacher, US Francesco Barraco, It. Rene Pauk Fonck, Fr. Manfred von Richtoffen, Ger. [The “Red Baron”] Willy Coppens de Holthust, Belg. Eddie “Mick” Mannoch, Br.

13. Looking for the “Red Baron?”

14. Verdun – February, 1916 e German offensive. e Each side had 500,000 casualties. e German offensive. e Each side had 500,000 casualties.

15. The Somme – July, 1916 e 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. e Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months. e 60,000 British soldiers killed in one day. e Over 1,000,000 killed in 5 months.

16. The Eastern Front

17. The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915

18. Turkish Cavalry in Palestine

19. America Joins the Allies

20. The Sinking of the Lusitania

21. The Zimmerman Telegram

22. The Yanks Are Coming! The Yanks Are Coming!