Aim: How did World War I have devastating global effects?

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• Machine guns
• Artillery (cannons) i.e. “Big Bertha”
• Gas grenades
• Transportation (trains, automobiles)
• Communication (radios, telephones)
• Tanks
• Planes
• Naval Units
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• http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/gcselinks/w ars/firstwwlinks/worksheets/realityofwar.pp
t#1War: Fantasy vs. Realilty

By Miss Boughey www.WeatherheadHistory.ik.org
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The British government wanted to encourage men to enlist for war.
They said the war would be safe, hardly any fighting, a good lark and over by
Christmas.
A picture of soldiers going
‘Over the Top’
They used advertising posters to encourage this idea!

The reality of ‘going over the top’ was very different!

Soldiers were expected to carry all of their equipment with them at all times.
They were supposed to keep it clean and in good condition – they were British after all.

How the uniform and equipment changed after just three weeks in the trenches…

Posters always showed men ready and willing to fight.
They never showed the boredom of the trenches or actual fighting taking place.
Why do you think the government showed no fighting?

Their equipment is scattered everywhere…
Boredom and sleep are obvious…
No smiling and relaxed faces…
No clean uniforms…

The soldiers had very little decent food, and what food they had was often attacked by rats.
These rats were the size of small rabbits and badgers because they had fed on the decomposing bodies of dead soldiers.

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• Initially believed to be a symptom of poor morale by military authorities, 'trench foot' was in fact a fungal infection of the feet brought on by prolonged exposure to damp, cold conditions allied to poor environmental hygiene.
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Poetry from the First World War was written by soldiers who served at the Western Front.
• They saw the horrors of War first hand.
• They wrote about what they really saw.
• Their poems were published just after the war, so they were not censored. They are first hand and often unbiased sources.

WILFRED OWEN
Wilfred Owen is one of the more famous War Poets.
He was (British) born March
18 th , 1893.
He joined the Army in 1915 as an Officer in the “Artists
Rifles”.
Wilfred Owen served in some of the worst conditions during the following months.

Dulce et Decorum Est

Bent double like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

November 4 th , 1918:
Owen and his men went ‘over the top’.
He was shot and killed by German machine guns on the banks of the
Sambre-Ouse Canal (Northern France).
The War ended just a week later on November 11 th .
Wilfred Owen was 25 years old.

Compare the poems of Brooke and Owen, specifically with their attitudes toward war.
Brooke Owen

• President Wilson had wanted the U.S. to remain neutral and not get pulled into World
War I.
• Wilson's Declaration of Neutrality

• In 1915 a German U-Boat sank The Lusitania , a
British passenger liner.
• 124 Americans were killed on board this ship.
• The Germans tried to prevent shipments from reaching the British and attacked U.S. merchant ships en route to Britain.
• This all shifted American opinion against
Germany.
• Wilson's note to Germany

http://rutlandhs.k12.vt.us/jpeterso/uboatcar.htm

• The Zimmerman Note (Background and the telegram itself).

The U.S. entered the War on
April 2, 1917 http://rutlandhs.k12.vt.us/jpeterso/MOREWW1/ZMMRMN.JPG

• More than 8.5 million were dead
• 17 million wounded
• Famine and disease were widespread in many regions.
• http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/
• The financial cost of the war is said to have amounted to almost $38 billion for Germany alone; Britain spent $35 billion, France $24 billion, Russia $22 billion, USA $22 billion and Austria-Hungary $20 billion. In total the war cost the Allies around $125 billion; the Central Powers
$60 billion. (Firstworldwar.com)