CLASS 2
Lecture
Notes:
1.
World War I was the most terrible war ever known
by men
2.
Almost everyone on both sides of the war
imagined that the war would be over quickly.
3.
This was because of the new “mechanized” warfare
that was available at that time.
4.
For the first time, automobiles and airplanes
were used, tanks came into being, U boats, dreadnoughts, dirigibles, rapid-fire
and long-distance cannon, howitzers and mortars.
5.
Germany’s plan on rapid advancement never came
to light.
6.
As they
got “bogged down” in northern France and Belgium.
7.
The British and French could not push back the
Germans.
8.
Due to intense shelling, trench warfare came
into existence, and the lines became fixed and almost never changed throughout
the war.
9.
No one had won the war,
10. World
war one was a war of attrition
11. Barbed
wire
12. Trench
system
13. No
man’s land was full with barbed wire.
14. The
war turned into a battle of artillery.
15. German’s
weapon is called the Howitzer.
16. 18
pounder
17. 18
pounder rounds
18. German
Fields Howitzer
19. In
the battle in 1916 420,000 British troops, 195,000 French troops died
20. By
1917, the war was still at a stalemate.
21. Neither
side could win.
22. Kaiser
Wilhelm fled Germany into exile.
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