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Total War “Everyone’s a Target”
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Total War “Everyone’s a Target” WWI
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Total War “Everyone’s a Target”. WWI. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= p05E_ohaQGk. Warning: next image is very graphic (shows trench foot). Responses to the Stalemate of Trench Warfare. “If necessity is the mother of innovation, then war is its father.” – Time Magazine. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Transcript of Total War “Everyone’s a Target”
Total War“Everyone’s a Target”
WWI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p05E_ohaQGk
Warning: next image is very graphic (shows trench foot)
Responses to the Stalemate of Trench Warfare
“If necessity is the mother of innovation, then war is its father.” –
Time Magazine
Warning: next image is fairly graphic (shows effects of poison gas)
“The sky is about to become another battlefield no less important than the battlefields on land and sea....In order to conquer the air, it is necessary to deprive the enemy of all means of flying, by striking at him in the air, at his bases of operation, or at his production centers. We had better get accustomed to this idea, and prepare ourselves.”— Giulio Douhet (Italian staff officer), 1909
The Red Baron
• German fighter pilot• Top “ace” of WWI with
80 air combat victories• Shot down and killed
on April 21, 1918
Zeppelin
Why was peace without defeat not an option?
Why did the Allied Powers insist on “making the Germans pay”?
