Post on 19-Jan-2016
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Unit 6: World War I (1914 – 1920)
New Weapons and Personalities
Weapons/ Personalities
In your notes, make a T-Chart like the one below and complete it as you watch the presentation.
New Weapons Personalities
1.2.3.
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Manfred von Richthofen
“The Red Baron” Richthofen’s
Flying Circus Shot down 80
Allied Aircraft before his death in 1917
Most feared Ace of the Great War
The Baron’s Fokker Dr-1 Triplane
Eddie Rickenbacker
Most famous American “Ace”
Shot down 27 German Aircraft
Had been a race car driver before war
Flew for famous “Hat in Ring” squadron
He survived the war and helped modernize America’s Air Corps
Fokker’s Machine Gun
This invention by Dutch aviator Ferdinand Fokker enabled pilots to fire upon enemy craft without shooting off own propellers.
German Balloonist Bailing Out
A German Zeppelin
“Little Willie”
This is a picture of an early British tank affectionately called “Little Willie.”
British Mark I Tank
This photo shows the dangers associated with early armored craft.
This one got stuck attempting to jump a trench.
Note the location of the cannons.
Chlorine Gas in “No Man’s Land”
Poisonous Gas delivered via artillery
The vapors would settle in the hollows
Usually fatal to unsuspecting troops
The effectiveness of this terrible weapon often depended on the direction of the wind
Gas Masks
One effective variation of the gas mask was invented by Garrett Morgan, a native of Paris, Kentucky
Also credited with stop light
French Flamethrowers
Maxim Machine Gun
Germany’s “Big Bertha”
420 MM (16.5”) Howitzer
Moved by rail 285 man crew 1 ton shell A 1918 model
shelled Paris from a range of 7.5 miles!
A German U-Boat
Belgian Periscope
Many strange weapons such as this one were tried in many instances to break the stalemate of trench warfare
Kaiser Wilhelm II
The German Kaiser in an Austrian dress uniform (1 of 200)
Epitome of Militarism
Notice his left arm
The Austrian Archduke
Archeduke Francis Ferdinand and the Dutchess Sophie with family
Czar Nicholas II
The Czar of Russia, later deposed and assassinated by the Bolsheviks along with his family
1st Cousin to the Kaiser and Britain’s Crown Prince
President Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson Re-elected in 1916
because he “kept us out of war”
Saw WW I as the beginning of peace
Later disillusioned due to failure of Fourteen Points