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World War 1
Why did it start?
Page 273 – People in Europe loved their countries. This
is called__________? Do you have those same feelings about the U.S.? How would you like it if someone were ruling us?
They became very _ _ _ _ _ because other countries were ruling over their country!
SERBIA WAS ANGRY AT AUSTRIA-HUNGRY BECAUSE THEY HAD LAND SERBIA THOUGHT SHOULD BE THEIRS. WHEN SERBIA KILLED AUSTRIA-HUNGARY’S PRINCE, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY DELCARED WAR ON SERBIA. EACH HAD ‘ALLIES’ OR FRIENDS THAT JOINED THE FIGHT TO HELP THEM.
One country- Russia- worried the fighting so close would affect it’s trade roads so they jumped in to
help Serbia!
Another country-Germany was helping their friend-Austria
Hungary. They got mad at Russia for helping Serbia and declared war on them! Russia declared war right
back! See a trend here?
You pick on my friend and I’ll beat you up! No! I’ll beat you up! Ever been involved in something like that? LOL
Another country-France-was friends with Russia. So guess what
Germany did to France?
Say it with me…they declared….
WAR on them!
For Germany to attack France, they had to go through Belgium. But the King of Belgium said “No, you cannot march through my
country you Germans!” Guess what Germany did to Belgium?
They attacked Belgium. And then Belgium’s pal-GREAT BRITAIN
jumped in to protect their pal and declared war on GERMANY. And
don’t forget what country Great Britain gave birth to…
Americans had sympathy for the mother country-Great Britain and the Allies. BUT-most Americans
said it wasn’t our fight and we wanted to remain neutral. This
policy was called i_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m
There were many, many new technologies used in World War 1
for the first time!
Soldiers in Europe dug great trenches like this one here to live and fight in during World
War 1
These soldiers wear gas masks to protect from a new ‘war weapon’ – poison gas- as they hike
through miles of dug out trenches.
These German soldiers wait in the snow to fire during WW1.
Soldiers ate and slept and did their business in trenches. Many times they were in them for
months at a time. Phew wee! Stink-o!
Soldiers fought from down in the trenches. They raised up to fire their guns and put
themselves at risk.
Going ‘over the top’ of a trench into no man’s land was dangerous!
This soldier falls in no man’s land as he is exposed to poison gas without a mask. Notice the hot masks being worn to protect the face from gas. 3 out of 10 men that
died during World War one did so because of poison gas.
Poison gas was usually tossed across no man’s land in containers
such as these.
Notice the trees in no man’s land here. Everything has been totally destroyed!
Dead body in a trench
British soldiers in WW1 used the new invention- the tank! It certainly helped cross
no man’s land safer!
The German military came up with a secret weapon of their own-the dangerous new submarine! It would be this
weapon that would help draw the U.S. into the first World War!
World War 1 would be the first war in the history of the world in which airplanes were
used!
Here is a war plane getting ready to bomb targets in WW1.