1. World War 1

2. Why did it start?
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People in Europe loved their countries. This
is called__________? Do you have
those same feelings about the U.S.? How
would you like it if someone were ruling
us?
They became very _ _ _ _ _ because other
countries were ruling over their country!

3. SERBIA WAS ANGRY AT AUSTRIA-HUNGRY BECAUSE THEY HAD LAND SERBIA
THOUGHT SHOULD BE THEIRS. WHEN SERBIA KILLED AUSTRIA-HUNGARY’S
PRINCE, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY DELCARED WAR ON SERBIA. EACH HAD ‘ALLIES’ OR
FRIENDS THAT JOINED THE FIGHT TO HELP THEM.

4. One country- Russia- worried the
fighting so close would affect it’s
trade roads so they jumped in to
help Serbia!

5. Another country-Germany was
helping their friend-Austria
Hungary. They got mad at Russia
for helping Serbia and declared war
on them! Russia declared war right
back! See a trend here?
You pick on my friend and I’ll beat you up!
No! I’ll beat you up! Ever been involved in
something like that? LOL

6. Another country-France-was
friends with Russia. So guess what
Germany did to France?
Say it with me…they declared….
WAR on them!

7. For Germany to attack France, they had to go
through Belgium. But the King of Belgium
said “No, you cannot march through my
country you Germans!” Guess what
Germany did to Belgium?

8. They attacked Belgium. And then
Belgium’s pal-GREAT BRITAIN
jumped in to protect their pal and
declared war on GERMANY. And
don’t forget what country Great
Britain gave birth to…

9. Americans had sympathy for the
mother country-Great Britain and
the Allies. BUT-most Americans
said it wasn’t our fight and we
wanted to remain neutral. This
policy was called
i_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ m

10. There were many, many new
technologies used in World War 1
for the first time!

12. Soldiers in Europe dug great trenches like
this one here to live and fight in during
World War 1

13. These soldiers wear gas masks to protect from a
new ‘war weapon’ – poison gas- as they hike
through miles of dug out trenches.

14. These German soldiers wait in the
snow to fire during WW1.

15. Soldiers ate and slept and did their business in
trenches. Many times they were in them for
months at a time. Phew wee! Stink-o!

16. Soldiers fought from down in the trenches.
They raised up to fire their guns and put
themselves at risk.

17. Going ‘over the top’ of a trench into
no man’s land was dangerous!

18. This soldier falls in no man’s land as he is exposed to
poison gas without a mask. Notice the hot masks being
worn to protect the face from gas. 3 out of 10 men that
died during World War one did so because of poison gas.

19. Poison gas was usually tossed
across no man’s land in containers
such as these.

20. Notice the trees in no man’s land here.
Everything has been totally destroyed!

21. Dead body in a trench

22. British soldiers in WW1 used the new
invention- the tank! It certainly helped cross
no man’s land safer!

23. The German military came up with a secret weapon of their
own-the dangerous new submarine! It would be this
weapon that would help draw the U.S. into the first World
War!

24. World War 1 would be the first war in the
history of the world in which airplanes were
used!

25. Here is a war plane getting ready to
bomb targets in WW1.