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• Read the poem “The Man He Killed” • Compare the message in the poem to the messages you discovered in the Xmas Truce
• Read the poem “The Man He Killed”
• Compare the message in the poem to the messages you discovered in the Xmas Truce
• Analyze the causes of Trench Warfare
• Describe the conditions experienced in Trench Warfare from 1914-1917
• Examine the impact of industrial inventions during WWI
Overheadview of
Trenches
• Machine Gun• Tank• Mortars/Cannons• Airplane• Chemical Warfare
(MG)• Submarine
• They almost win WWI for Germany… why?
• Instead, they will lose WWI for Germany…why?– 1915…British
liner Lusitanian sunk• 1,200 drowned,
118 Americans– USA joins Allied
Powers in 1917
