WW1
PowerPoint
By Charlie Tresidder
Which countries were on each side?
Which countries were on each side?
• The war was made up of 3 groups of countries. They were the
Allied Powers, the Central Powers and the Neutral countries.
• Some of the main Allied powers were Great Britain, France,
Italy and the Russian Empire
• The main Central Powers were Germany and Austria/Hungary.
• The main Neutral countries were Spain, Norway, Sweden and
Denmark.
Why do we
wear a poppy?
Poppies are used to
show we remember
soldiers who died in war.
There is a poem called In
Flanders Fields.
It was written in WW1 by
a doctor from Canada
after a friend of his who
was a soldier, died in the
war.
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Flanders Field
Flanders is an area in Belgium. Flanders Field is
the name we use for the battlefields in WW1.
Soldiers who died were buried on the
battlefields, quite often where they fell.
The battlefields were dug up lots.
Poppies started to grow because they grow on
land that has been dug up lots.
Why do we wear a poppy?
In 1918, after the war had finished, a
lady called Moina Michael wrote a poem
called We Shall Keep the Faith which she
wrote after reading the Flanders Field
poem.
In tribute to Flanders Field, she declared
that she would always wear a red poppy
as a symbol of remembering the soldiers
who died in the War. Other people
copied her and it carried on from there.
Moina Michael
We Shall Keep the Faith
by Moina Michael, November 1918
Oh! You who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.
What happened to the Olympics in WW1?
Olympics happen every 4 years.
There should have been some in 1916 in Germany but they
had to be cancelled because of the War.
The next games happened in 1920, in Belgium, after the war
had ended.
Germany wasn’t allowed to enter those Olympics because
they were blamed for the war. They also weren’t allowed to
enter in 1924. After that, the ban was lifted and they were
allowed to enter.
What did different countries wear in the War?
GREAT
BRITAIN
GERMANY
FRANCE
What did different countries wear in the War?
ITALY
RUSSIA
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
What did the trenches look like?
What did the trenches look like?
What was it like in the trenches?
• Soldiers had to stay in the
trenches all day and all night
unless they were ordered to cross
No Man’s Land
• They only had one hour’s sleep at
a time and then they rotated it so
everyone had rest but there were
always some people awake to
watch for the enemy.
• It was very wet, dirty and smelly.
The water caused some people to
get Trench Foot which is a disease
where they sometimes had to cut
off your foot (if it was bad).
Soldiers sleeping in a trench –
doesn’t look very comfy!
A bad case of
trench foot
What was it like in the trenches?
• There were lots of creatures
that they had to cope with
including rats, lice, spiders
and frogs. Some of the rats
were the size of a cat!
• It was very smelly as the
soldiers didn’t wash very
often and dead bodies were
left on the ground.
• It was very boring because
there wasn’t much for the
soldiers to do.
The trenches filled with lots
of water
What was it like in the trenches?
• This year, a historian, Andrew Robertshaw, decided to build a 60
feet trench in a field behind his home in Surrey to show people
what a trench was really like.
• He had 30 volunteers to help him
Andrew Robertshaw standing in the trench he built
The trench in his field
What was it like in the trenches?
Shows how narrow a trench was
Using a periscope to look for the enemy
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