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Warm Up
• What is a stalemate?
• What impact might a stalemate have on a war’s progress?
Answers
• Neither side has the advantage….both are on the defensive.
• A war will drag on….cost of war
WW IWeapons and Stuff
WWI Strategy and TechnologyStalemate????
WWI Strategy and TechnologyStalemate????
Machine Guns
Trench Warfare
Trench Foot
Poison Gas
Poison Gas
• Deadly new “bomb”
• Burned the skin and eyes
• Left soldiers paralyzed and lung-damaged
• Death
• German were the first to use in April 1915, at the Battle of Ypres….six weeks later Allies had their own
Tanks
Armored Tanks
• Great Britain was the first…”iron monsters”
• Used along the Somme front
• Later made smaller and maneuverable
Airships and Airplanes
• Christmas Day 1914…some of the first air battles fought with dirigibles(a balloon that can be steered; also called an airship)
• German were called Zeppelins..but were easy targets…replaced by airplanes..especially 1917-1918
To Do…
• Handout: “A New Kind of War” Part A only.
Warm Up
• Identify two weapons and stuff of WWI and explain their impact.
• To Do: Handout “A New Kind of War”.
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• Please complete map skills on page 461 numbers 2 and 3 only
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• Please take a handout “Decoding a Message” and complete.
• You may write on the handout
The following is a fictitious telegram used in the Teaching Activity with this lesson.
Source: www. Nationalarchives.gov
February 22, 1917
To: von Eckhardt
Mexico City
British crack top secret code. U.S. press
may leak German plot with Mexico. Prepare
to leave embassy on short notice.
BernstorffWashington, D.C
Why did the United States declare war on Germany?
A. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
1. Sinking of the Lusitania in May 1915
2. Early 1917 resume USW
B.Russian Revolution
C.Zimmerman Note
1. German foreign minister to German ambassador to Mexico…What did it say?
In January of 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur
Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, von Eckhardt,
American
• a bulldog wearing a Marine helmet, chasing a dachshund wearing a German helmet.
American
• Poster showing a woman, a passenger from the Lusitania, submerged in water cradling an infant in her arms.
American• This poster
shows an image of the Statue Of Liberty as a real woman calling out for more war fund donations.
American
• "Help!" Red Cross recruitment poster showing a Red Cross nurse dragging a wounded soldier from the battlefield.
American
• "Times are hard your Majesty - you leave us nothing to do" Poster showing a devil, with two child-like devils, appealing to Kaiser Wilhelm II, who has a bloody sword extending from beneath his cape, that the Kaiser has left no work for them; on the left is a cave identified as "Gehenna Apartments", its opening covered with cobwebs, over which hangs a sign "To Let".
American
• A Good month's business Caricature of two devils, one of them being Kaiser Wilhelm II, looking at monthly report of murders.
American
British
• Once a German - Always a German
French
• On les Aura! (We'll Get 'Em!) Widely imitated recruiting poster enthusiastically urges young men to surge forward to meet the enemy. The title is from the famous order of Petain of April 1916.
German
• Idh Gehe Hinaus An Die Front! Hast Du Die 6 Kriegsanlethe schon gezeidhnet? (I Go to the Front - Have You Already Subscribed to the 6th War Loan?)
German
• Fur die Kriegsanleihe! (For the War Loan!) Cherub holding a German army helmet filled with coins beseeches us to contribute.