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The Conflict Broadens Germany’s Schlieffen Plan
– 2 front war • Send small German force to Russia while majority of
troops invade France. • Germans invade Belgium bringing Britain into WWI
The Two FrontsWestern Front
Schlieffen Plan fails.• German defeated outside
of Paris –Battle of Marne-1st &
most important battle
Eastern Front
Russian– Unindustrialized– Large pop=large army
Battle of Tannenberg –Russia pushed out of Germany
Battle of Galicia -Russians pushed out of Austria-Hungary
Italians betrayed Central Powers & joined Allied powers.
New Fight tactics & Weapons Trench warfare
-war of Attriction – war based on wearing the other side down by attacks and loses.
Trench Foot
FlameThrowers
FlameThrowers
GrenadeLaunchersGrenade
Launchers
Poison Gas
Poison Gas
Machine Gun
Machine Gun
Krupp’s “Big Bertha” GunKrupp’s “Big Bertha” Gun
British Tank at YpresBritish Tank at Ypres
War in the Air 1915 airplanes appear on battle front.
– 1st used as reconnaissance, but then for attacking ground targets. • Used hand pistols & later machine guns• German s used zeppelins to bomb London.
The Flying Aces of World War I
The Flying Aces of World War I
Eddie Rickenbacher, US
FrancescoBarraco, It.
Rene PaukFonck, Fr.
Manfred vonRichtoffen, Ger.
[The “Red Baron”]
Willy Coppens deHolthust, Belg.
Eddie “Mick”Mannoch, Br.
Looking for the “Red Baron?”
Looking for the “Red Baron?”
