World War I

Why was it so deadly? Jot down notes as we go through the slides?

Alain-Fournier, "this war is fine and just and great".

By The Numbers

Mobilized Dead Wounded Missing/PoW Russia 12,000,000 1,700,000 4,950,000 2,500,000 Germany 11,000,000 1,773,700 4,216,058 1,152,800 Great Britain 8,904,467 908,371 2,090,212 191,652 France 8,410,000 1,375,800 3,266,000 537,000 Austria-Hungary 7,800,000 1,200,000 3,620,000 2,200,000 Italy 5,615,000 650,000 947,000 600,000 US 4,355,000 126,000 234,300 4,526 Turkey 2,850,000 325,000 400,000 250,000 Bulgaria 1,200,000 87,500 152,390 27,029 Japan 800,000 300 907 3 Romania 750,000 335,706 120,000 80,000 Serbia 707,343 45,000 133,148 152,958 Belgium 267,000 13,716 44,686 34,659 Greece 230,000 5,000 21,000 1,000 Portugal 100,000 7,222 13,751 12,318 Montenegro 50,000 3,000 10,000 7,000

The Soldiers

French soldiers waiting for their meal.

Trench with French soldiers

The Shell-Shattered Area of Chateau Wood, Flanders

Scene in the trenches

Looking out from the entrance of a captured Pill-Box on to the shell ravaged battlefield.

Child Soldiers

Poison Gas

Poison Gas Attacks

American soldier wearing his gas mask

Gas attack seen from an airplane

Gas masks for man and horse demonstrated by American soldier

Effects of Mustard Gas

Trench Warfare

British Trench DiagramsTaken from the British reference manual on Trench Warfare, British Trench Warfare 1917-1918. The manual was originally prepared by the General Staff at the British War Office

Schematic Illustration of trenches from a French magazine.

German trenches

Soldiers of the US 332 Infantry, 83rd Division in trenches with the Italians on the Piave

US 18th Infantry, 1st Division troops in front line trench, 20 Jan 1918

“Hand-grenade Combat”

Russians fighting while under gas attack

German machine gun trench

Death on the Battlefield

German remains at Verdun

Dead French soldiers in the Argonne

Death of a French regiment near Peronne

German dead in frontline trench on the Somme, 1916

Russian soldier dead on the wire

Destruction

Mt. Grappa

Avoncourt, France

Rheims, France

Shell Craters On The Battlefield

Verdun: Cloister of the Hotel de la Princerie

Village of Esnes

Weapons of War

Machine Guns

Barbed Wire

Flamethrowers

Periscope Rifle

Phosphorus Grenade Exploding

Austrian Skoda 305mm howitzer

Krupp 420mm howitzer

Italian artillery battery

French 120mm guns

Krupp railroad gun

Advent of the Tank

French Renault PT-17 tank

Original British tank prototype "Little Willie"

British Mark I tank

German A7V tank

US Renault tank of C Company, 327th Tank Battalion

Alain-Fournier, "this war is fine and just and great."

• He joined the French Army in August 1914.

Alain Fournier was dead by September, 1914