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What does the First World War reveal? (How likely was war? (France…
What does the First World War reveal?
How likely was war?
Britain
Okay with Germany
Don't like Russia and France
Germany
Friends with Austria and Russia
Don't like Britain and France
France
Don't like Britain
HATE Germany
Friends with Russia
Russia
Friends with France, Germany, Bulgaria, Serbia and Bosnia
Don't like Britain
Austria-Hungary
Tolerating France
Don't like Russia
Best friends with Germany
The Outbreak of War
Austrian Franz Ferdinand is assassinated by Serbian terrorists, the Black Hand Gang
Serbia thinks they're better than Austria
Austria investigates Serbia
Austria and Serbia go to war
Russia prepares for war
Germany wants Russia to stop
Germany and Russia go to war
France prepares for war
Germany and France go to war
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Battles of the First World War
Cavalry
used for 3000 years until 1914
Outdated
WWI was too dangerous for cavalry
Age of Cavalry was over
Charge and rush
Useless against machine guns
Battle of Mons, 250 men and horses died
Ineffective
Defensive Strategies
Artillery
Start of war - machine guns
1000 bullets per minutes
Huge cannons fire explosive shells that can go in trenches
no hand-to-hand combat
Heavy and difficult to use
Defense, not attack
Neither side would win
Draws the war out
Soldiers of the First World War
British
Started with 250,000 men in the army
Ended with 6.5 million men in the army
1 million men died
They had to re-recruit when they lost a lot of men
Fought in Western Front trenches
Battle of Somme
Battle of Ypres
Battle of Passchendaele
Served in Western Front, Turkey, Iraq
Canada
600,000 fought
60,000 killed
170,000 wounded
Fought in the Battle of Somme
30,000 killed
Finest hour in 1918, won the Battle of Ameins
Served in Europe
South Africa
100,000 fought
30,000 overseas
20,000 killed
They dug trenches, carried supplies and cooked for troops
Served in Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda
India
1.5 million fought
47,746 killed
65,000 wounded
Against Germans +Turks
Battle of Ypres
Won 13,000 medals
Served in France, East Africa, Middle East