Images of WWI In order to get a better perspective on what it was like during the Great War, I have complied a “photographs” of soldiers, battlefields,

Images of WWI Images of WWI

In order to get a better perspective on In order to get a better perspective on what it was like during the Great War, what it was like during the Great War, I have complied a “photographs” of I have complied a “photographs” of soldiers, battlefields, the weapons of soldiers, battlefields, the weapons of the war, the dead, quotes, and the war, the dead, quotes, and artwork.artwork.

In your viewing, take notes on:In your viewing, take notes on: 1. images that surprised you, 1. images that surprised you, 2. images that horrified you,2. images that horrified you, 3. daily life of a soldier 3. daily life of a soldier

Do Now: 2.28.2011Do Now: 2.28.2011

Set up notes: images of WWISet up notes: images of WWI Be sure you have a photocopy of the poem: Be sure you have a photocopy of the poem:

“Dulce et Decorum Est”“Dulce et Decorum Est” Read the assignment on the back, while I Read the assignment on the back, while I

take attendancetake attendance Oral History Project: Due on Tuesday. Oral History Project: Due on Tuesday.

100pts.100pts. Hmwk #8 – 186 – 195 – Wednesday. Hmwk #8 – 186 – 195 – Wednesday. Hmwk #9 – WWI Newspaper – Friday Hmwk #9 – WWI Newspaper – Friday

50pts.50pts.

Images of WWIImages of WWI

Soldiers running across Soldiers running across No No Man’s LandMan’s Land

Trench WarfareTrench Warfare

Soldiers in the TrenchSoldiers in the Trench

Western Front

Eastern Front


Verdun: Cloister of the

Hotel de la Princerie


After the shelling of

Verdun


Before: Village of Esnes is shelled


After the shelling of Village of

Esnes


A German tank caught in a

British Trench


Death of a French regiment


German remains at Verdun

WWI Art – a new genreWWI Art – a new genre

What does this picture What does this picture represent?represent?

Over the TopOver the Top by John by John NashNash

John Nash, John Nash, Oppy Wood, Oppy Wood, 19171917

SUNDAY MORNING AT SUNDAY MORNING AT CUNELCUNEL

by Harvey Thomas Dunn by Harvey Thomas Dunn

John Singer Sargent John Singer Sargent

Gassed

Eric Kennington, Eric Kennington, Gassed and WoundedGassed and Wounded, 1918 , 1918

Frequent site of soldiers on their Frequent site of soldiers on their free timefree time

American SoldiersAmerican Soldiers


Gas Shells exploding in “No Man’s

Land”


A common site in WWI: The Gas Mask

Wounded through the Wounded through the TrenchTrench


Germans in the Trench


Russians fighting while

under gas attack


“NO Man’s Land”

• Referred to the territory between the opponents trenches. Soldiers were told to “go over the top” out of the trench by commanding officers almost to certain death by machine gun fire. Barbed wire and pits from artillery fire made it nearly impossible for attacking

units to survive.


British poet Wilfred Owen, later British poet Wilfred Owen, later killed in action during the war, killed in action during the war, wrote:wrote: "No Man's Land is pocket marked like "No Man's Land is pocket marked like

the body of foulest disease and its odor the body of foulest disease and its odor is the breath of cancer...No Man's Land is the breath of cancer...No Man's Land under snow is like the face of the moon, under snow is like the face of the moon, chaotic, crater-ridden, uninhabitable, chaotic, crater-ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness." awful, the abode of madness."

Trench Warfare Trench Warfare


Christian Maier, Machine

Gunner, Imperial German Army


A German Maxim

Machine Gun crew


Water Filled Trench in

Passchendaele, 1917

Trenches often became water-

logged and many soldiers would get

“trench-foot”


Trench Foot


A captured British tank


German unit on the offensive into No Man’s Land

Notice the barb wire. This

probably caused more deaths than

rifles.


Battlefield littered with

dead

British veterans, all British veterans, all amputees phenomenal amputees phenomenal

Images of WWIImages of WWI American Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of American Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of

The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, took a friend to battlefield in took a friend to battlefield in the north of France after the war. He said: the north of France after the war. He said:

““See that little stream - we could walk to it in See that little stream - we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it - a whole empire walking very slowly, dying to it - a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving behind the dead like a few inches a day, leaving behind the dead like a million bloody rags. No European will ever do million bloody rags. No European will ever do that again in this generation.”that again in this generation.”

Corporal D.L. Rowlands, letter to his Corporal D.L. Rowlands, letter to his future wife (5th February, 1918)future wife (5th February, 1918)

““Perhaps you would like to know something of the Perhaps you would like to know something of the spirit of the men out here now. Well, the truth is (I'd spirit of the men out here now. Well, the truth is (I'd be shot if anyone of importance collared this missive) be shot if anyone of importance collared this missive) every man Jack is fed up almost past bearing, and not every man Jack is fed up almost past bearing, and not a single one has an ounce of what we call patriotism a single one has an ounce of what we call patriotism left in him. No one cares a rap whether Germany has left in him. No one cares a rap whether Germany has Alsace, Belgium or France too for that matter. All that Alsace, Belgium or France too for that matter. All that every man desires now is to get done with it and go every man desires now is to get done with it and go home. Now that's the honest truth, and any man who home. Now that's the honest truth, and any man who has been out here within the last few months will tell has been out here within the last few months will tell you the same. In fact, and this is no exaggeration, the you the same. In fact, and this is no exaggeration, the greatest hope of a great majority of the men is that greatest hope of a great majority of the men is that rioting and revolt at home will force the government rioting and revolt at home will force the government to pack in on any terms.”to pack in on any terms.”

Prepare for the Prepare for the following!!!!following!!!!

1. How are these causes of WWI? 1. How are these causes of WWI? Militarism Militarism Nationalism Nationalism Imperialism Imperialism

2. Alliance Systems 2. Alliance Systems Look to your chart & NotesLook to your chart & Notes

3. Assassination & its effects3. Assassination & its effects

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Images of WWI In order to get a better perspective on what it was like during the Great War, I have complied a “photographs” of soldiers, battlefields,