1. WORLD HISTORY Have out your bell work paper. Turn in any late imperialism packets and maps.

2. Bell Work: Wednesday 05.20.15  Respond to the following in the space for Wednesday on your bell work paper.  What does the term alliance mean? How was Europe divided into alliances? Who was allied with whom?

3. Essential Question What caused World War I, how was it fought and what effect did it have on world events?

4. Why did a stalemate develop on the Western Front? How did technology make World War I different from earlier wars? What was the course of the war on the Eastern Front, in other parts of Europe, in Turkey, and in the Middle East? Topical Questions

5. World War I on Many Fronts

7. A Multi-Front War

8. Both sides dug vast systems of deep trenches for protection, creating a deadly stalemate on the Western Front.stalemate The area between opposing trenches became a “no man’s land.”trenches Each side launched attacks and counterattacks but gained very little territory. Battle lines in France would remain almost unchanged for four years.

9. Trench Warfare

10. Millions of soldiers ate, slept, and fought in the trenches.

11. Trench Warfare “No Man’s Land”

12. Newly developed weapons made the fighting much more deadly. In some battles, hundreds of thousands were killed. Rapid-fire machine guns Long-range artillery guns Poison gas The Somme – July, 1916Somme The Somme – July, 1916Somme Verdun – February, 1916

13. New technology expanded battle sites from the ground to the air and under water. Tanks Zeppelins Airplanes U-boats

14. Multiple Fronts  Eastern Front-Russia suffered disastrous losses. Withdrew in 1917 because of revolution at home.  World War I involved many current and former European colonies.

15. Sikh British Soldiers in India

16. Fighting in Africa 3 rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade

17. Fighting in Salonika, Greece French colonial marine infantry from Cochin, China - 1916

18. Independent Practice  Read and complete the activities in the Causes Of World War I, The Theatres of War and Trenches and Weapons Packets