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WORLD WAR I

1914-1918

All About

World War I *inside*

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SUBTOPICS: • MAJOR EVENTS OF THE U.S. IN WWI • LIFE AS A SOILDER/ TRECH WARFARE • ARTILLERY • BUILDING UP TO WWI

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President Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the 28th President of the United States, serving two terms from 1913-1919. He lead our nation through the hard years of WWI (1914-1918)

U.S. SOLDIERS ARRIVED IN FRANCE ON JUNE 26 1917

Topics about WWI Major Events for the U.S. in WWI Mihiel”. And the final battle of World War I When the first World War 1918 started in 1914, the U.S. Germany declared its neutrality. Later signed the armistice, on in the war (1917), the U.S. ending WWI declared war on Germany and we entered the war on the side of Great Britain and France. Also in 1917, Congress passed the Selective Service Act authorizing the draft and our first U.S. troops landed in france.

America’s first mission the troops launched was called “The Battle of Saint-

was during Sept. 26-Nov. 11, 1918, 48,000 Americans were killed in this one battle, 0.13% of Americans died, and 1.92% of people the whole world died.

Life as a Solider Life on the front was usually spent leaping into trenches, eating, smoking, hiding from shells, fighting, and trying to keep clean. But when not on the front soldiers had exhausting labors and jobs to do. For example: training, paperwork, cooking, building trenches, etc. When they

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TRENCH WAR

Their families, they played cards (poker, skat, crown and anchor, etc.), and they played sports like football.

They also made/took souvenirs took bring back home.

hundreds of thousands of men, planning against each other perpetually some new device of death� this shows the gritty, dirty aspects of what life was like in the trenches. When in the trenches, soldiers tried to Trench Warfare Mud, barbed wire, rain, find food without mold or that had already been rats, and lice is what the chewed on by rats, then soldiers of WWI had to they would smoke. cigars, worry about when not frightened by the loud shell cigarettes, chewing fire over their trenches. tobacco. And after they ate Harold. Macmillan, a soldier they would try to rest for the next day ahead of them. of WWI wrote on May 13, 1916 “lurk thousands (moles and rats), even

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Artillery By the time WWI started, artillery on both sides had become powerful and deadly. The range of the guns and the types of shells would have a big effect on the soldiers in the front lines. Powerful cannons (both long-range and short-range) killed thousands of soldiers with high explosive shells, shrapnel, and gas.

SMALL ARMS OF WWI

Building up to WWI In 1882 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy form the Triple Alliance. After that other countries begin to form alliances. In 1904 Great Britain and France reach agreement for military support in the event of a war. In 1906 the British launch a big gun battleship, the HMS Dreadnought. Germans follow and begin building battleships and an arms race begins.

Then in 1907 the British reach an agreement with Russia. Because of these competing alliances, when Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, is killed in Bosnia in June of 1914, Austria-Hungary and Germany declare war beginning WWI.

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Colt 1898

Browning automatic rifle

Lewis Machine Gun

Citation/Bibliography http://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/themes/life-as-a-soldier http://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.asp?smallarms_id=765 World War I: 1914-1918 (America at War (Av2)) Goldsworthy, Steve http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/firstworldwar/index-1914.html

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Word

Part of Speech (noun, verb, adj)

Definition (in context with the story)

Sentence from book & Page #

How meanin period

1. battalions

noun

a large body of troops ready for battle, especially an infantry unit forming part of a brigade typically commanded by a lieutenant colonel.

“On either side stand people, dark, calling out the numbers of the brigades, the battalions.”(135)

It was a the war w body of readying

2. Bayonet

noun

a daggerlike steel weapon that is attached to or at the muzzle of a gun and used for stabbing or slashing in hand-­to-­hand combat.

"At bayonet-­practice I had constantly to fight with Himmelstoss...."(24)

A knife o gun to s that was World W

3.

“Blubber-­sticker”

adjective

fat, grumpy;; slimmy, lazy.

“It doesn't cost anything! anyone would think the quartermaster’s store belonged to him! And now get on with it, you old blubber-­sticker, and don’t you miscount either.”(6)

old expr say to so slimy/fat

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4. bombardment

noun

To attack with bombs, shells, or missiles.

5. brigades

noun

a subdivision of an “On either side stand people, dark, calling army, typically out the numbers of the brigades, the consisting of a battalions.”(135) small number of infantry battalions and/or other units and often forming part of a division.

6. Comrades

noun

a fellow soldier or member of the armed services.

“I can see him now, as he used to glare at us through his spectacles and say in a moving voice: ‘Won’t you join up, Comrades’”(11)

7. curtain fire

noun

rapid, continuous artillery or machine-­gun fire on a designated line or area.

“Bombardment, barrage, curtain-­fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-­guns, hand-­grenades-­words,words, but they hold the horror of the world.”(132)

8. Flanked

verb

be situated on each side of or on one side of (someone or something)

“On the other side of the canal there are ponds flanked with poplars;; on the other side of the canal there are women too.”

(143)

9. Furrows

noun

A deep wrinkle in the skin, as on the

“His face is broken and full of furrows”(104)

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"They say the bombardment extends undiminished as far as the artillery lines.”(73)

Used d

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noun

a person who idles “...so we turn into wags and loafers when time away. we are resting.”(139)

11. motor lorries

noun

a large motor “The engines drone, the lorries bump and vehicle that carries rattle.”(51) goods with a flat bed in the back.

12. Mutineers

noun

Someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities.

13. Parapet

noun

a protective wall or “We toss the bits of rat over the parapet and earth defense again lie in wait.”(103) along the top of a trench or other place of concealment for troops.

14. queer

adjective

strange, weird, abnormal.

“‘It’s queer, when one thinks about it,’”(203)

15. shell

noun

an artillery shell.

“On the way we pass a shelled schoolhouse.”(99)

16. Trenches

plural noun

To surround or to fortify.

"Had we gone into the trenches without this period of training most of us would certainly have gone mad"(26)

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"But for all that we were no mutineers, no deserters, no cowards-­they were very free with all these expressions" (13)

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17. Tunic

noun

a simple slip-­on "Then I unbuttoned his tunic in order to garment made with bandage him if it is possible"(220) or without sleeves and usually knee-­length or longer, belted at the waist, and worn as an under a coat by men in WWI and WWII.

18. Village Bobby

noun

a local German policemen.

“And when you’re twelve years up you get your pension and become the village bobby, and you can walk about the whole day.”(79)

19. wags

verb

(with reference to an animal's tail) move or cause to move rapidly to and fro.

“...so we turn into wags and loafers when we are resting.”(139)

20. whirling

verb

move or cause to in whirling confusion my thoughts hum in move rapidly my brain (210) around and around

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