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World War I

World War I. Trench Warfare. Trench Foot. Machine Guns. What was one problem with water cooled guns? Why were machine guns used mainly for defensive fighting and hard to use for offensive operations? One machine gun = about 80 rifles What does this mean?. Poison Gas.

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World War I

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  1. World War I

  2. Trench Warfare

  3. Trench Foot

  4. Machine Guns

  5. What was one problem with water cooled guns? • Why were machine guns used mainly for defensive fighting and hard to use for offensive operations? • One machine gun = about 80 rifles What does this mean?

  6. Poison Gas

  7. Casualties From Gas - The Numbers Country Total Casualties Deaths Austria-Hungary 100,000 3,000 British Empire 188,706 8,109 France 190,000 8,000 Germany 200,000 9,000 Russia 419,340 56,000 USA 72,807 1,462

  8. What were the two types of gas mentioned? • Why do you think the use of poison gas damaged German relations with neutral countries? • Why did using poison gas backfire on the side that was attacking?

  9. Airplane

  10. Aces

  11. Why do you think pilots were hailed as national hero’s and received a lot of publicity? (more then sailors or soldiers on the ground) • Why do you think the technology of the airplane advanced so quickly during the war? • Why do you think airplane pilots were not allowed to use parachutes during World War I? (men in the blimps and hot air balloons used them)

  12. U-Boats

  13. What was meant by unrestricted warfare, which the German’s used late in the war? • Were the German’s right or wrong in sinking the luxury liner (cruise ship)Lusitania? • Though the German U-boat campaign was largely ineffective, it did have one bad result for Germany? Think about relations with other countries.

  14. Tank

  15. Why did the Royal navy supply the crews for the British tanks? • Why was the only successful attack of tanks in WW I later ruled as ineffective? (think of the infantry) • Why did the use of the tank herald the end of trench warfare?

  16. Questions for all? • Which weapon caused the most casualties in World War I? • As in most other wars, fighting was not the number one killer of men, what was? • Of the 22 million people who died, over half of them were civilians, what would you do if you could to stop this from happening again?

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