Intro to WWI & its Technology

Intro to WWI & its Technology

By Kendrick Broadus

Intro WWI

Multiple Choice

What is the acronym to remember the causes of WWI?

• NAME

• MAINE

• FOUR

• MAIN

Multiple Choice

International rivalry caused...

• the arms race to disappear

• the arms race to get bigger

• world peace

Open Ended

How do you think alliances contributed to WWI?

Multiple Select

What were the two titles of the alliances?

• Triple Entente

• Triple Entre

• Triple Allegiance

• Triple Alliance

Open Ended

What does this saying mean? "The sun never sets on the British Empire"

Open Ended

How can pride lead to fighting?

Multiple Choice

Which is true about the Ottoman Empire leading up to WWI?

• It grew stronger

• It took over other countries

• It had lost a lot of land

• It took over Africa

Weapons of WW1

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Trench Warfare

“You smug faced crowds with kindling eye;

Who cheer when soldier lads march by;

Sneak home and pray you’ll never know;

The Hell where youth and laughter go.”

     

                            -Siegfried Sassoon

Open Ended

What is the poet trying to tell the people back home about the war?

Where?

• Primarily on the Western Front where Britain and France faced off with the Germans in France.

Why?

• Neither side was willing to back down and so dug in to prevent being pushed back.

• Treches were strong positions and when defended by machine guns, very difficul to capture.

What was Trench Warfare?

• British, French and German troops lived, fought and died in a massive network of trenches on the Western Front.

• The trenches were heavily defended with machine gun nests and barbed wire to prevent being taken by the enemy.

• To take an enemy trench soldiers had to assault the trench over No Mans Land- the dead ground between the trench lines, and then engage in brutal hand to hand fighting to take over the trench.

• The trenches put the war into a state of stalemate- neither side could push the other back, and neither side had the advantage.

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The Trench

The trench was a deep ditch, dug deep and fortified with sand bags and wooden planks to prevent them being destroyed by shells and collapse. They were protected at the front by barbed wire, mines and machine guns. The trenches were deep enough for a man to stand in.

No Mans Land

This was the area between the German and Allied trenches. It was a blasted and destroyed because of all the artillery and bombs. It turned to mud when it rained. Soldiers had to attack over No Man's Land to attack the enemies trench. Snipers and machine guns killed anyone wandering in No Man's Land. Most deaths occured in No Man's Land. No Man's

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a type of fighting used in World War One?

• Trench Warfare

• Atomic Bomb

• Guerilla Warfare

• No-Man's Land

Multiple Choice

What is the problem shown that troops suffered from?

• Gangrene
• Cold feet
• Trench foot
• Elephantiasis 

Multiple Choice

What was No Man's Land?

• The area behind the trenches

• The homefront

• The area in between the trenches

• The Trenches

Multiple Choice

What was the main reason for soldiers wanting pets in the trenches?

• To kill the rats

• To keep them entertained

• To send them into enemy lines

• To help with fleas and lice.

Multiple Choice

What did the trench rats feed on?

• Food stolen from sleeping soldiers

• Flesh of corpses

• Leather equipment

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Trench foot could be prevented by

• keeping feet dry and/or covered in whale-oil grease

• soaking socks in an antibacterial solution before putting them on

• nothing...it had no known method of prevention

• wearing steel-toed combat boots

Multiple Choice

Why did trench warfare develop during WWI?

• New weapons were created, and people need to protect themselves.

• Soldiers wanted to camouflage themselves with the ground.

• So that people could attack the tanks without being seen.

• Soldiers needed a place to sleep during the war.

Open Ended

What weapons do you think is the most effective?

Open Ended

What weapon do you think is the least effective?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was not a new weapon during WWI?

• airplanes

• machine guns

• atomic bomb

• poison gas

Multiple Choice

Which weapon was used to bomb enemy trenches from a far distance?

• submarine
• long range artillery
• tank
• machine gun

Multiple Choice

Which weapon was used to launch torpedoes from under the water?

• long range artillery
• submarine
• depth charge
• machine gun

Multiple Choice

Which weapon was used to fire a large amount of bullets very quickly?

• machine gun
• tank
• long range artillery
• airplane

Multiple Choice

What weapon was used to mow down barbed wire around enemy trenches?

• tank
• submarine
• bayonette
• poison gas

Multiple Choice

During WWI, soldier who suffered mental breakdowns were said to have

• Trench fever
• Dysentery
• PTSD
• Shell Shock

Multiple Choice

This soldier is trying to protect himself from...

• Trench rats

• Dysentery

• Trench mouth

• Poison gas

Multiple Choice

The land between the trenches was known as...

• No Man's Land

• No One's Land

• No Soldier Land

• No Trench Zone

Multiple Choice

Machine guns could fire about _______ rounds per minute.

• 100-250

• 300-450

• 450-600

• 700-900

Multiple Choice

What was the most lethal weapon used in WW1?

• Poison Gas

• Tanks

• Flamethrowers

• Artillery

Multiple Choice

Submarine warfare was banned after WW1

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The use of poison gas was outlawed following WW1.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which country used poison gas first?

• Germany

• Britain

• France

• United States

Multiple Choice

Most men in WW1 who got caught in poison gas were able to return to active service after treatment.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What is a U-boat?

• A German Battle Ship
• An American Passenger Ship
• A German Submarine
• A French Aircraft

Multiple Choice

Planes were armed with...

• Machine guns

• Artillery

• Torpedos

Multiple Choice

This was not originally designed to be used in war and wasn't originally used as "a weapon":

• Flamethrower
• gas
• airplane
• tank

Multiple Choice

Which weapon was mainly used to conduct surveillance (reconnaissance) missions?

• submarines
• tanks
• airplanes
• long range artillery

Multiple Choice

Chlorine, Mustard, Phosgene are all types of...

• Artillery

• Gas

• tanks

• airplanes

WH - Armenian Genocide

by Rebecca Millan

Multiple Choice

1 - What do Armenians and an overwhelming number of historians say Turkey's rulers committed?

• a massacre

• genocide

• terror

Multiple Choice

2 - Where is the largest Armenian cemetery in the world?

• Armenia

• Syria

• Turkey

Multiple Choice

5 - Do the Turks admit that there was a campaign to exterminate the Armenians?

• yes

• no

Multiple Choice

6 - What does the UN define genocide as?

• the intent to elevate a racial, ethnic, or religious group

• the intent to destroy a racial ethnic, or religious group

Multiple Choice

10 - Is Turkey an importnat ally in the Middle East?

• yes

• no

Multiple Choice

1 - How many Armenians lost their lives from 1915 to the early 1920s at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government?

• over 3 million

• less than 1 million

• over 1.5 million

Multiple Choice

4 - Where did Anna escape to with the help of an Armenian priest?

• Athens, Greece

• Baghdad, Iraq

• Aleppos, Syria

Multiple Choice

6 - Where did Anna go in the beginning of 1964?

• back to Turkey

• to the United States

• to Armenia

• b