WORLD WAR I (1914-1918)

The SIDES

Triple Entente

Russia

England

France

The SIDES

Triple Alliance

Austria-Hungary

Germany

Ottoman Empire

The MAP

WESTERN FRONT Schlieffen PlanSchlieffen Plan

Germany’s plan for quick victory by invading France through neutral Belgium.

Win quickly against France then turn around and fight Russia on the Eastern front.

WESTERN FRONT

Resistance in Belgium slowed the German army enough for France to stop Germans at the Battle of the Battle of the MarneMarne

WESTERN FRONT

The war turned into a stalematestalemate as both sides began to dig trenches

TRENCH WARFARE

Form of warfare in which soldiers fight from trenches dug into the Form of warfare in which soldiers fight from trenches dug into the battlefield– trade huge loss of human life for pitiful small land gainsbattlefield– trade huge loss of human life for pitiful small land gains

Basically, weaponry Basically, weaponry has now become so has now become so powerful that both powerful that both sides had to dig into sides had to dig into the ground like moles the ground like moles to stop being blown to to stop being blown to smithereens!smithereens!

Trench Foot Trench Rats Constant shell-fire

(shell shock) Dysentery stomach

pains/diarrhea) Lice (itch, carry

disease) trench fever: first

symptoms were shooting pains in the shins and was followed by a very high fever.

TRENCH WARFARE

One soldier wrote: "The rats were huge. They were so big they would eat a wounded man if he couldn't defend himself."

TRENCH WARFARE

TRENCH WARFARE

TRENCH WARFARE

Trench Foot: This was an infection of the Trench Foot: This was an infection of the feet caused by cold, wet and insanitary feet caused by cold, wet and insanitary conditions.conditions.

POISON GAS

Both sides used a variety of chemical weapons to overcome the trenches

POISON GASThe gas was delivered in shells… Fired across “No Man’s land”…

POISON GASImpact released gas into the air… Wind blew it towards the trenches…

POISON GASGas masks were needed for survival… For both humans and animals…

POISON GASVictims suffered severe burns… Nerve and respiratory damage…

POISON GASBlindness… And Death…

ROLE OF COLONIES The countries

fighting WWI needed human and natural resources from their overseas colonies

ROLE OF COLONIESAfrican soldiers in British army…

ROLE OF COLONIESIndian soldiers in British army…

ROLE OF COLONIESAustralians in British Army…

ROLE OF COLONIESIrish in British Army…