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Title: World War I Warfare


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World War I Warfare
  • Chapter 19, section 3

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Trench warfare
  • Style of fighting during WWI
  • After the Schlieffen Offensive, both armies dug
    large systems of trenches
  • Occurred on Western (France) and Eastern (Russia)
    fronts.

3
Trench Warfare
  • Advanced weapons of war forced armies into the
    trenches
  • No Mans Land was the area between the enemy
    trenches

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Trench Warfare
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Trench Foot
  • Most valuable possessiondry socks
  • Trench Warfare

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World War I Weapons
  • WWI was the first mechanized war
  • New deadly weapons added to destructiveness of
    the war

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Weapons of WWI
  • Automatic machine gun
  • Made the cavalry obsolete
  • Made crossing No Mans Land difficult

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Weapons of WWI
  • Poison Gas
  • Introduced by Germany
  • Internationally outlawed after WWI

12
Weapons of WWI
  • U-boat
  • Used by Germany
  • Crippled Navy of Great Britain

13
Weapons of WWI
  • Airplane
  • First used for observation
  • Later engaged in dogfights

14
Weapons of WWI
  • Tank
  • Introduced by Great Britain in 1917
  • Protected troops in No Mans Land
  • Could travel through trenches

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Trench Warfare
  • Introduction of new weapons and building of
    trenches caused a stalemate
  • Armies launched massive attacks to break up the
    stalemate, but unsuccessful
  • WWI will be the deadliest war mankind had ever
    experienced before

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Fighting beyond Europe
  • Most of the fighting took place in Europe, but
    WWI was a global conflict
  • European colonies were drug into war
  • Colonists had mixed feelings
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