Post on 23-Dec-2015
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World War I
Trench Warfare
Trench Foot
Machine Guns
• What was one problem with water cooled guns?
• Why were machine guns used mainly for defensive fighting and hard to use for offensive operations?
• One machine gun = about 80 rifles What does this mean?
Poison Gas
Casualties From Gas - The Numbers
Country Total Casualties DeathsAustria-Hungary 100,000 3,000British Empire 188,706 8,109 France 190,000 8,000 Germany 200,000 9,000 Russia 419,340 56,000 USA 72,807 1,462
• What were the two types of gas mentioned?• Why do you think the use of poison gas
damaged German relations with neutral countries?
• Why did using poison gas backfire on the side that was attacking?
Airplane
Aces
• Why do you think pilots were hailed as national hero’s and received a lot of publicity? (more then sailors or soldiers on the ground)
• Why do you think the technology of the airplane advanced so quickly during the war?
• Why do you think airplane pilots were not allowed to use parachutes during World War I? (men in the blimps and hot air balloons used them)
U-Boats
• What was meant by unrestricted warfare, which the German’s used late in the war?
• Were the German’s right or wrong in sinking the luxury liner (cruise ship)Lusitania?
• Though the German U-boat campaign was largely ineffective, it did have one bad result for Germany? Think about relations with other countries.
Tank
• Why did the Royal navy supply the crews for the British tanks?
• Why was the only successful attack of tanks in WW I later ruled as ineffective? (think of the infantry)
• Why did the use of the tank herald the end of trench warfare?
Questions for all?
• Which weapon caused the most casualties in World War I?
• As in most other wars, fighting was not the number one killer of men, what was?
• Of the 22 million people who died, over half of them were civilians, what would you do if you could to stop this from happening again?