1. WWI

2. • Both sides felt the war would be over quickly

4. Germany’s Plan
• Called the Schlieffen Plan
– Attack Paris first, then concentrate on Russia
– Go through neutral Belgium to get to France
– Belgium refused
– Germany went anyway
– This brought Britain into the war on the side of
the Allies

6. Stalemate
• The loss of large numbers of troops without
major gains on either side
• Resulted in trench warfare

7. New weapons and equipment for WWI
• British developed the tank

9. • Germans developed poison gas

11. • Germans used zeppelins.

12. Airplanes

13. • German’s had the submarine.
• Also called a U-boat

14. Trench Life

24. Trench Foot

30. Total War
• War in which all the resources of a country are
devoted to destroying the enemy

35. • Germany helped Vladimir Lenin to power in
exchange for a peace treaty with Russia
• Germany now had one less enemy to fight

36. • US declared war on April 6, 1917

37. Paris Peace Conference
• Wrote the Treaty of Versailles which ended
the war
– Germany was blamed for the war
– Had to pay reparations (payment for damages) to
France and Britain
– Germany had it’s military drastically cut

38. Cost of War
• 10,000,000 men died in battle
• 26,000,000 were wounded or missing in
action
• 10,000,000 civilian deaths
• About 15,000 people died for each day of the
war
• $350,000,000,000 in damages