warm-up! what do you know about going to war/being a soldier? how do know this information (tv,...
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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 2,004 272
Sleeping at post 449 2
Cowardice 213 14
Disobedience 120 4
Mutiny 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.