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.

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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

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Weapons of WWI

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

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Weapons of WWI

• Airplane
• First used for observation
• Later engaged in dogfights

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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