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• 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.

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• 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.