1. Warm-up!
What do you know about going to war/being a soldier? How do know this information (TV, movies, books, etc)? Would you fight for your country if asked? Why or why not?
What do you picture in your mind when you think about war?
Use complete sentences.

3. Reactions to going to war: RELIEF War = relief from internal problems
Unified countries
Saw it as fighting for JUSTICE!
Millions of young men signed up
Cheered on by everyone else

4. Terms to know:
Mobilization: Getting things ready for war.
“Two-Front War”: war where major fighting takes place in two separate parts of the world
EX: Eastern front/theater and Western Front/theater (WWI)

5. Germany’s Plan: FAILURE, and Thus a STALEMATE!
Germany paranoid about being btw France and Russia
Plan ready for this before WWI broke out
Way to Win War: Schlieffen Plan
Goal: To defeat France quickly, then face Russia
Thought Russia would be slow to mobilize
FAILURE, and Thus a STALEMATE!
Underestimated Russia’s speed
French and British forces stopped Germany at:
Battle of the Marne

7. What country are these troops from?

8. Stopping the Germans– a new strategy

9. Inside the Trenches

12. Dulce et Decorum Est- WILFRED OWEN
Gas!(7) Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets(*) just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime(*) Dim, through the misty panes(*) and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering,(*) choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud(*)

13. Technology

14. Ships
Destroyers
Supply Boats

15. German U-Boats
New war Technology

16. Poison gas
Deadly
Blind/ choke victim
Burns/blisters

17. Artillery

18. Trench Diagram:

19. What improvements would you hve made to the trench layout?

20. Tanks Slow/ broke down easily Later had machine guns put in
Designed to move across no man’s land

21. Planes!
Used for surveillance (spying)
New
Fired into Trenches

22. Day in the Life of a Trench Soldier…
Stand-To
Riffle cleaning/ Breakfast
Inspection
Chores
Leisure (empty time)

24. Worries:
Trench foot
Rats

26. War Statistics: what did the most men die for?
Offense
Number of Sentences
Number of Executions
Desertion
2,004
272
Sleeping at post
449 2
Cowardice
213 14
Disobedience
120 4
Mutiny 55 15
Casting away arms 6

27. Trench Warfare
The purpose of trench warfare was to slow down the opposing force. As a result, fighting during WWI lasted a long time, resulting in many more deaths.

28. Trench Warfare Key Terms:
Stalemate—a position where no decisive action can be made, a deadlock.
Trench Warfare—style of fighting where sides dug into earth to fight in built-in bunkers
Total War—the complete dedication of a country to a war cause

29. Assignment
Pretend you are a World War I soldier fighting in the Trenches. Write a letter home to your family describing what life is like. Be sure to include details that we have discussed today like the new technology and mass human loss. Be creative!
You must use complete sentences and your letter should be at least a page long.