World War I Battles Technology A World War
World War I : Battles & Technology
A World War
The Balkans, 1914 The “Powder Keg” of Europe
A Multi-Front War
Trench Warfare
Trench Warfare “No Man’s Land”
Krupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun
French Renault Tank
British Tank at Ypres
U-Boats
Allied Ships Sunk by U-Boats
The Zeppelin
The Airplane “Squadron Over the Brenta” Max Edler von Poosch, 1917
The Flying Aces of World War I Eddie Rickenbacher, US Francesco Barraco, It. Eddie “Mick” Mannoch, Br. Willy Coppens de Holthust, Belg. Rene Pauk Fonck, Fr. Manfred von Richtoffen, Ger. [The “Red Baron”]
Looking for the “Red Baron? ”
Flame Throwers Grenade Launchers
Poison Gas Machine Gun
John Sargent “Gassed”
The Western Front • http: //www. bbc. co. uk/history/war/wwone/la unch_ani_western_front. shtml
Verdun – February, 1916 e German offensive. e Each side had 500, 000 casualties.
The Somme – July, 1916 e 60, 000 British soldiers killed in one day. e Over 1, 000 killed in 5 months.
War Is HELL !!
The Eastern Front
The Gallipoli Disaster, 1915
T. E. Lawrence & the “Arab Revolt”, 1916 -18
The Sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmerman Telegram
1918 • The end is near
German Cartoon: “Fit for active service!”, 1918
1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies 50, 000 – 100, 000 died
11 a. m. , November 11, 1918
9, 000 Dead
The Somme American Cemetary, France 116, 516 Americans Died
World War I Casualties
Turkish Genocide Against Armenians A Portent of Future Horrors to Come!
Turkish Genocide Against Armenians Districts & Vilayets of Western Armenia in Turkey 1914 1922 Erzerum 215, 000 1, 500 Van 197, 000 500 Kharbert 204, 000 35, 000 Diarbekir 124, 000 3, 000 Bitlis 220, 000 56, 000 Sivas 225, 000 16, 800 Other Armenian-populated Sites in Turkey Western Anatolia 371, 800 27, 000 Cilicia and Northern Syria 309, 000 70, 000 European Turkey 194, 000 163, 000 73, 390 15, 000 2, 133, 190 387, 800 Trapizond District Total
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