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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