Warm-up!

• What do you know about going to war/being a soldier? How do know this information (TV, movies, books, etc)? Would you fight for your country if asked? Why or why not?

• What do you picture in your mind when you think about war?

• Use complete sentences.

Reactions to going to war: RELIEFWar = relief from internal problems

• Unified countries• Saw it as fighting for

JUSTICE!• Millions of young

men signed up• Cheered on by

everyone else

Terms to know:• Mobilization: Getting things ready

for war.

• “Two-Front War”: war where major fighting takes place in two separate parts of the world–EX: Eastern front/theater and Western Front/theater (WWI)

Germany’s Plan:• Germany paranoid about being btw France

and Russia• Plan ready for this before WWI broke out• Way to Win War: Schlieffen Plan–Goal: To defeat France quickly, then face

Russia–Thought Russia would be slow to mobilize

FAILURE, and Thus a STALEMATE!

Underestimated Russia’s speedFrench and British forces stopped Germany at:

Battle of the Marne

What country are these troops from?

STOPPING THE GERMANS

Stopping the Germans– a new strategy

INSIDE THE TRENCHES

Dulce et Decorum Est- WILFRED OWEN Gas!(7) Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,

Fitting the clumsy helmets(*) just in time; But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime(*) . . . Dim, through the misty panes(*) and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering,(*) choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud(*)

• Technology

Ships

• Destroyers• Supply Boats

German U-Boats

• New war Technology

Poison gas• Deadly• Blind/ choke victim• Burns/blisters

Artillery

Trench Diagram:

Tanks• Slow/ broke down easily• Later had machine guns put in• Designed to move across no man’s land

Planes!

•Used for surveillance (spying)•New•Fired into Trenches

Day in the Life of a Trench Soldier…

• Stand-To• Riffle cleaning/ Breakfast• Inspection• Chores• Leisure (empty time)• Stand-To

Worries:Trench foot

Rats

War Statistics: what did the most men die for?

Offense Number of Sentences

Number of Executions

Desertion 2,004 272Sleeping at post 449 2Cowardice 213 14Disobedience 120 4Mutiny 55 15Casting away arms 6 2

Trench Warfare• The purpose of trench warfare was to

slow down the opposing force. As a result, fighting during WWI lasted a long time, resulting in many more deaths.

Trench Warfare

• Key Terms:• Stalemate—a position where no decisive

action can be made, a deadlock.• Trench Warfare—style of fighting where sides

dug into earth to fight in built-in bunkers• Total War—the complete dedication of a

country to a war cause

Assignment

• Pretend you are a World War I soldier fighting in the Trenches. Write a letter home to your family describing what life is like. Be sure to include details that we have discussed today like the new technology and mass human loss. Be creative!

• You must use complete sentences and your letter should be at least a page long.