The War on the Western front in class

1. WORLD WAR I (1914-1918)

2. The SIDES
 Triple Entente
Russia
England
France

3. The SIDES
 Triple Alliance
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Ottoman Empire

4. The MAP

5. WESTERN FRONT
 Schlieffen Plan
Germany’s plan for
quick victory by
invading France
through neutral
Belgium.
 Win quickly against
France then turn
around and fight
Russia on the
Eastern front.

6. WESTERN FRONT
 Resistance in
Belgium slowed
the German
army enough for
France to stop
Germans at the
Battle of the
Marne

7. WESTERN FRONT
 The war turned
into a stalemate
as both sides
began to dig
trenches

8. TRENCH WARFARE
Basically, weaponry
has now become so
powerful that both
sides had to dig into
the ground like moles
to stop being blown to
smithereens!
Form of warfare in which soldiers fight from trenches dug into the
battlefield– trade huge loss of human life for pitiful small land gains

9. TRENCH WARFARE
 Trench Foot
 Trench Rats
 Constant shell-fire
(shell shock)
 Dysentery stomach
pains/diarrhea)
 Lice (itch, carry
disease)
 trench fever: first
One soldier wrote: "The rats were symptoms were shooting
huge. They were so big they would pains in the shins and
was followed by a very
eat a wounded man if he couldn't high fever.
defend himself."

10. TRENCH WARFARE

11. TRENCH WARFARE

12. TRENCH WARFARE
Trench Foot: This was an infection of the
feet caused by cold, wet and insanitary
conditions.

13. POISON GAS
 Bothsides
used a variety
of chemical
weapons to
overcome the
trenches

14. POISON GAS
The gas was delivered in shells… Fired across “No Man’s land”…

15. POISON GAS
Impact released gas into the air… Wind blew it towards the
trenches…

16. POISON GAS
Gas masks were needed for survival… For both humans and animals…

17. POISON GAS
Victims suffered severe burns… Nerve and respiratory damage…

18. POISON GAS
Blindness… And Death…

19. ROLE OF COLONIES
 The countries
fighting WWI
needed human
and natural
resources from
their overseas
colonies

20. ROLE OF COLONIES
African soldiers in British army…

21. ROLE OF COLONIES
Indian soldiers in British army…

22. ROLE OF COLONIES
Australians in British Army…

23. ROLE OF COLONIES
Irish in British Army…