1914 1918 Gavrilo Princip a Bosnian Serb student

1914 -1918

� Gavrilo Princip a Bosnian Serb student assainated Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the 28 th of June 1914 in Sarejevo. The war stared a month later

� Allies � Central powers

� Tanks were so called because of early attempts to disguise them as water tanks. They were also known as male and female tanks; male tanks had cannons and female tanks had machine guns. � After WWI, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland emerged as independent nations. � Pigeons were also used during the war. About 500, 000 pigeons were regularly dropped into enemy lines by parachute, and then sent back with messages

� U. S. troops fought their first battle of World War I on November 2, 1917, in the trenches at Barthelemont, France. � Gas was one of the most effecting and damaging weapon. The French were the ones to use it for the first time, in 1914. Throughout the War, 1, 19, 000 tons of gas were used and almost a million soldiers were gassed and had an awful death. � Major Leaders of World War 1 included Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II, Prince Alexander of Serbia, Sir Edward Grey British Foreign Secretary, President Wilson U. S. President, H. H. Asquith and David Lloyd George

� The Devil Gun is another one of the most famous weapons of this conflict. It belonged to the French and it was a cannon which could accurately shoot at a 4 -mile distance. � Big Bertha was a German howitzer. Named after designer’s Gustav Krupp’s wife, it had almost 50 tons and needed half a dozen soldiers to be handled. � Little Willie was the first tank used in The Great War. Only three men could fit in it and it travelled with a speed of almost 5 km/h. � Machine guns needed 4 -6 men to work them and had to be on a flat surface. They had the firepower of 100 guns.

Battle Total Casualties 1. Hundred Day Offensive 1, 855, 369 2. Spring Offensive 1, 539, 715 3. Battle of the Somme 1, 219, 201 4. Battle of Verdun 976, 000 5. Battle of Passchendaele 848, 614 6. Serbian Campaign 633, 500 7. First Battle of Marnes 483, 000 8. Battle of Gallipoli 473, 000 9. Battle of Arras 278, 000 10. Battle of Tannenberg 182, 000 10 Bloodiest Battles of World War I e

� � Life in the trenches was nightmarish, aside from the usual rigors of combat. Forces of nature posed as great a threat as the opposing army. Heavy rainfall flooded trenches and created impassable, muddy conditions. The mud not only made it difficult to get from one place to another; it also had other, more dire consequences. Many times, soldiers became trapped in the thick, deep mud; unable to extricate themselves, they often drowned. German trenches were the most luxurious.

� World War 1 ended on November 11 TH 1914 at 11 am. � Germany had formally surrendered on November 11, 1918, and all nations had agreed to stop fighting while the terms of peace were negotiated. � For the next several months, diplomats argued and compromised together in order to come up with the Versailles Treaty. The Versailles Treaty was the peace treaty that ended World War I; however, a number of its terms were so controversial that it also set the stage for World War II.