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World War I: The Beginning

World War I: The Beginning. Mr. Bach Accelerated World History Hudson High School. A Family Affair. Three Cousins King George V (England) Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany) Tsar Nicholas II (Russia). Willy, Nicky, and Georgie. War Goals. Germany Austria-Hungary Ottoman Empire England

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World War I: The Beginning

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  1. World War I: The Beginning Mr. Bach Accelerated World History Hudson High School

  2. A Family Affair • Three Cousins • King George V (England) • Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany) • Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) Willy, Nicky, and Georgie

  3. War Goals • Germany • Austria-Hungary • Ottoman Empire • England • France • Russia • United States

  4. The Battle Plans • France – Plan XVII (elan vital) • Austria-Hungary – Plans B and R • Russia – Plans G and A (19) • United States • Germany – Schlieffen Plan

  5. The Schlieffen Plan

  6. German Atrocities in Belgium

  7. The Schlieffen Plan Falls Apart • The Battle of the Marne • The Western Front • The Battle of Tannenburg • The Eastern Front

  8. The Western Front

  9. A Multi-Front War

  10. Trench Warfare

  11. Trench Warfare “No Man’s Land”

  12. The Western Front Today

  13. Machine Guns Trench Warfare Barbed Wire Hand Grenades Heavy Artillery Gas Attacks (Gas Masks) Tanks Airplanes U-Boats A New War

  14. French Renault Tank

  15. U-Boats

  16. The Flying Aces of World War I FrancescoBarraco, It. Eddie “Mick”Mannoch, Br. Eddie Rickenbacher, US Manfred vonRichtoffen, Ger.[The “RedBaron”] Rene PaukFonck, Fr. Willy Coppens deHolthust, Belg.

  17. The Zeppelin

  18. FlameThrowers GrenadeLaunchers

  19. Poison Gas Machine Gun

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