World War I Begins
The German
battle strategy
was called the
Schlieffen plan.
Germany attacks
France from the
North after first
invading
Belgium.
A Multi-Front War
World War I: Trench Warfare
As each side moved south, they dug
elaborate trench systems to escape enemy
fire. Neither side could gain any advantage on
the other.
Definition:
Trench Warfare- non moving battle lines dug
into the ground facing each other.
In World War One, the opposing sides fought
each other from trenches with neither side
gaining any advantage until the end of the war.
World War I :
Trench Warfare
On the Western
Front, both sides
had trenches that
stretched for over
450 miles.
N
Trench Warfare – type of fighting during
World War I in which both sides dug
trenches protected by mines and barbed
wire
World War I Trench Warfare
Aerial photo of
German Trenches
to the right and
British trenches to
the left.
The area between
the trenches is
called no man’s
land.
Why are the trenches
zig zagged?
World War I Trench Warfare
German army is Red, French Army is Blue.
World War I Trench Warfare
Diagram of a New Zealand Army Trench
World War I Trench Warfare
British Army in the Trenches1916
World War I Trench Warfare
German
trenches in
a French
Forest
devastated
by war.
French soldiers firing over their
own dead
World War I - Trench Warfare
Going over the top!
W.W. I Weapons
Worldbook Encyclopedia
New Weapons in World War I
Machine
Guns
Browning Machine Guns used by British and
American forces - water cooled and fires 450 to
600 rounds a minute
New Weapons in World War I
Poison Gas
was first used
in 1914 by the
French
“Gas was one of
a soldier’s
greatest fears
even though
only it killed only
3% of soldiers in
the war.”
Gas masks were needed for soldiers and horses
Effects of
Mustard Gas
New Weapons in World War I
Tanks were first
used in 1916 by the
British.
tanks frightened the
Germans, but they were
rather unreliable and
broke down often.
French Renault Tank
British Tank at Ypres
New Weapons in World War I
Submarines (U-Boats)
U Boats – German submarines
unrestricted submarine warfare
U-Boats (Unterseeboot)
New Weapons in World War I
German U Boat
attacking a US ship
in 1915.
New Weapons in World War I
Airplanes
First used for observation,
Later pilots were dropping
bombs and shooting at
each other.
British Sopwith Camel
German Tri Plane
The Flying Aces of World War I
• .
Eddie
Rickenbacher, US
Francesco
Barraco, It.
Willy Coppens de
Holthust, Belg.
Rene Pauk
Fonck, Fr.
Manfred von
Richtoffen, Ger.
[The “Red Baron”]
The Zeppelin
Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun
German artillery designed to decimate the trenches and disrupt s upply
lines
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Throwers
Grenade
Launchers