THIS… CHANGED… EVERYTHING. The Great War was the first major clash of Industrialized Global powers. It’s been called the “Civil War of the West”. All of those empires that were using their economic and technological advantage to build empires in Unit 6, are now turning that power against one another. I’ll warn you again here. You can get lost in all of this war. It’s massive. You could devote your whole life to these four years and never know it all. So, focus on the generic flow of the war, the new technologies (tanks, gas, machine guns, heavy artillery), and the ways these countries mobilized their people to fight (both from within their countries and from their colonies).

1. TRENCH WARFARE
2. TRENCH RATS
3. MUSTARD GAS
4. WESTERN FRONT
5. DREADNOUGHT

1. CONDUCTING WWI, Heimler’s History

2. TRENCH WARFARE

3. SERGEANT STUBBY

4. BATTLE OF THE SOMMES

5. SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA

6. GERMAN UBOATS (this has WWI & WWII, but… it’s still great)

7. WWI DEATH COUNTS PER COUNTRY

8. TREATY OF VERSAILLES

1. ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM, January, 1917 (Decoded message from Germany to Mexico)
2. AMERICAN DECLARATION OF WAR, April 1917 (President Wilson declares war)
3. ARMISTICE AGREEMENT, November 11, 1918 (Official end to the fighting in the war)
4. TREATY OF VERSAILLES, June 28, 1919 (Possibly the most consequential treaty of all time that set up the post-War world)
5. ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1929 (Most famous War novel of all time about fighting in the trenches on the Western Front)

1. LORD KITCHENER WANTS YOU POSTER, 1914

2. DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE, US Army recruitment poster (1917)

3. GASSED by John Singer Sergant (1919)

4. SIGNING OF THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES, 1919

5. DRONES VIEW OF A WWI BATTLEFIELD IN 2016 (2016)

1. The Archduke’s assassination brought the world to war (originally called “The Great War”)
2. The war broke into three main fronts: Western (France) Eastern (Russia) & the Ocean (Atlantic)
3. New weapons and tactics meant astronomical death tolls on all sides with Russia, the Ottomans and Germans seeing the highest death counts.
4. Empires used people from their overseas territories to fight in the Great War as well.
5. Russia exited (Russian Revolution) and America entered (Unrestricted Submarine Warfare) leading to the Armistice in 1918 and the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.