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World War 1
The Great War
My Idiosyncrasies and Teaching Method
You will see the following a lot -- TTYN: Talk To Your Neighbor or in other words, an opportunity to incorporate cooperative learning
Do Now’s: Every class period begins with some type of “Do Now” If I have given homework (usually reading), I will assess what was learned. If the class period revolves around an activity, the Do Now will set up what we are about to learn.
Common Core: I believe all of lessons and activities align with the Common Core.
Quizzes and Tests: You are on your own. I generally structure my exams after NYS Regents. In other words, a little bit of everything, which includes a major writing element. Unit exams generally take two days. The second day will feature the writing element. Quizzes – Always involves some type of literacy activity such as mini DBQ’s, short-answer response, thesis statements, etc….
What to expect during this unit
To learn about the events leading up to World War I
To learn about World War I
To learn about the results of the war
DBQ Practice
Plenty of group work
Maybe a surprise quiz or two
Unit Test
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out3 their hasty orisons.4
No mockeries5 now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, –The shrill, demented6 choirs of wailing shells; And bugles7 calling for them from sad shires.8
What candles9 may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. The pallor10 of girls' brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk11 a drawing-down of blinds
- Wilfred Owens
TTYN: What is the author of the poem trying to tell us?
What I Know about WWI What I Learned about WWIWhat I Want to Learn about WWI
K-W-L World War I - TTYN
Causes of World War 1
War Guilt Question
Rise in Nationalism
Imperialism and International Rivalry
Internal Stability
Complex Alliance System
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
German Blank Check and Quick Mobilization
Activity Learning Stations: Causes of World War I
LESSON TITLE: Causes of WWI
SUBJECT/GRADE LEVEL: Global Studies II
TIME PERIOD: Two Class Periods
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
Students will be able to Identify and describe the events that caused the start of World
War I
MATERIALS: Do-now question, Primary Source Reading, Learning Stations Material,
PowerPoint, 3-2-1Organizer
WARM-UP:
1. Do Now:
- Describe why the assassination of the Archduke is considered a trigger to the start of WWI
Activity Learning Stations: Causes of World War I
2. Big Group Discussion: -Students and teacher will work cooperatively responding to previous night’s primary source reading on the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
3. Small Group Activity: - Working in small groups, students will rotate through Learning Stations examining the four primary causes associated with the start of WWI in Europe.
4. Big Group Discussion: - Utilizing the WWI PowerPoint, the students and teacher will examine their interpretations regarding what was during learned during the Learning Station Activity.
5. Assessment:
Students will complete a 3-2-1 Graphic Organizer
Activity Learning Stations: Causes of World War I
BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS OF THE LESSON/ACTIVITY:
Begin class with an anticipatory set to encourage students to call upon what was
learned from the previous night’s reading and corresponding summary statement
from the article, The Killing of the Archduke. Next, working in small groups, each
group will analyze primary and secondary source material while rotating through
four stations, which examines the primary causes of WWI. Next, in a big group
format, the students and teacher will examine a teacher-designed PowerPoint that
highlights the primary causes of the start of WWI. Finally, in an effort to measure
student assessment, the students will complete a 3-2-1 Graphic Organizer.
Timeline
Notice How the U.S. responds to the start of the war
War Guilt Question
Few issues in modern history have received as much attention as assigning
responsibility for the outbreak of the World War in 1914.
Leaders reacted to events instead of proactively managing the crisis
Austrians, Hungarians and Serbs made important decisions early in the
crisis, they consistently avoided compromise and risked war
There was plenty of time for calculation, caution and decision.
Who chose to risk war, and why?
Let the dominos fall
Rise in Nationalism
TTYN: Describe nationalism
How nationalism was a long-term cause of WWI
Germany was extremely proud of the military power that they had become after
the Franco-Prussian War.
As a new unified nation after January of 1871, the Germans felt nearly
unstoppable as a world power.
The French on the other hand had been embarrassed by the Germans and found it
necessary to regain their pride.
How nationalism was a long-term cause of WWI
Feelings of resentment led to the massive militarism between Germany and
France
Growth of Pan-Slavism and the unification of all Slavic peoples
Protected by Russia, the areas around Serbia became very unstable.
The Serbians were prepared to create their own independent Slavic state
supported by the Russians.
This will lead to what we call the “Balkan Powder Keg” or an area in the
Balkans that would only take a minor issue to explode into full on war
Rise in Nationalism
The Trigger: Serbian Nationalism
The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and
his wife, Sophie, assassinated in
Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914 by
young Bosnian terrorist Gabrillo
Princip.
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Rise in Nationalism
Why the “European or Balkan Powder Keg” exploded
Principal Players: Austria-Hungary and Serbia
The Black Hand - an anti-Austrian secret society…A nationalist Serbia
group
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Hapsburg heir to the Austro-Hungarian
throne
The decline of the Ottoman Empire and rise of nationalism in the Balkans
threatened the stability of Austria-Hungary, which did not want to be the next
“Sick Man of Europe”
Rise in Nationalism
Why the “European or Balkan Powder Keg” exploded
Large Slavic population with Russia acting as their mother
Austria-Hungary issued Serbia with various ultimatums
No more anti-monarchist propaganda
Purge the Serbian military
Quick sentencing for the guilty
Germany promises to support Austria’s decisions
July 28, 1914, Austria declares war on Serbia
Rise in Nationalism
Why the “European or Balkan Powder Keg” exploded
TTYN:
What was the purpose of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo
Who was responsible for the killing, besides the assassins themselves?
Complex Alliance System
Two major alliances that developed prior to WWI
Triple Entente (Allies)
Triple Alliance (Central Powers).
The Triple Entente consisted of Great Britain, France and Russia.
Created in an effort to counter the Triple Alliance
Triple Alliance consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
Italy finds that it is in their best interest to wait and see what unfolds during
the war; thus, allowing them to further their growth as a nation.
TTYN: What is an alliance?
Complex Alliance System
The Central Powers will eventually consist of Austro-Hungary (1914), the
German Empire (1914), the Ottoman Empire (1914), and the Kingdom of
Bulgaria (1915).
The Triple Entente would become known as the Allied Powers and grow
considerably, consisting of the Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of Serbia, the
French Third Republic, the Russian Empire, the British Empire, the Kingdom
of Italy, the Empire of Japan, the United States, the Portuguese Republic, the
Kingdom of Romania, the Kingdom of Greece and many others who lent
military and financial aid.
July 28, 1914, Austria declares war on Serbia
TTYN: What event can we conclude was the start of WWI
Small Group ActivityRefer to Notes PacketIdentify country and allegiance (Alliance or Entente)Identify other countries missing from map and their respective allegiance
1879The Dual Alliance
Germany and Austria-Hungary made an alliance to protect
themselves from Russia
1881Austro-Serbian Alliance
Austria-Hungary made an alliance with Serbia to stop Russia gaining
control of Serbia
1882The Triple Alliance
Germany and Austria- Hungary made an alliance with Italy to stop Italy from taking sides with Russia
1914Triple Entente (no separate peace)
Britain, Russia and France agreed not to sign for peace separately.
A Path towards Friendship or War
1894Franco-Russian Alliance
Russia formed an alliance with France to protect herself against Germany and Austria-Hungary
1907Triple Entente
This was made between Russia, France and Britain to counter the increasing threat from Germany.
1907Anglo-Russian Entente
This was an agreement between Britain and Russia
1904Entente Cordiale
This was an agreement, but not a formal alliance, between France
and Britain.
TTYN: Was a war inevitable after the murder, or did policy-makers let the crisis escape their control? Why did a Balkan crisis lead to a world war in 1914, when other crises had not?
Complex Alliance System
Why can we consider Austria declaring war on Serbia as the
start of WWI? Chain Reaction
Russia Mobilized Along Austria-Hungarian Border
Germany Declared War on Russia and France….Why France?
UK and France Declared War on Germany and Austria-Hungary
Imperialism and International Rivalry
Nations from around the globe were competing for control of colonies in order to
gain….to gain what?
Germany attempts to control lands in Africa, a place that Britain and France were
already established.
In 1905 and 1911 Germany was attempting to keep France from imposing a
protectorate on Morocco.
Resulting in Britain and France became closer allies in the conflict against
Germany.
Britain and France believed that keeping Germany out of Africa, the Germans
would not be able to build themselves into a threatening power.
Land, Resources, and Influence
TTYN: Describe Imperialism
International Rivalry
The race to imperialize came with consequences
The race to militarize. TTYN: What does it mean to militarize?
The glorification of one’s military. Also the belief of a
nation or its people to build and maintain a strong
military, with the intention to use it whenever it is felt
necessary.
Remember Bismarck? Bismarck made it his goal to keep the unified German
State prepared to defend itself against France.
He felt that it was necessary to keep France isolated and weak at all cost.
France---Understanding that Germany was building a large military, saw it as a
necessity to in turn build a large military to protect themselves against the Germans.
In other words, two nations doing their very best to prepare to annihilate the other.
International Rivalry
The Germans were also threatening the British by building a large Navy, making
the British feel insecure about their place amongst the world’s elite navies for the
first time in nearly a hundred years.
British reaction - building a larger navy.
Not in a vacuum - Prior to the outbreak of WWI. It does not take long for these
countries to find a reason to use their militaries against each other in an attempt to
prove who is superior.
What I Know about WWI What I Learned about WWI
What I Want to Learn about WWI
K-W-L World War I - TTYN
Recapping the Causes of World War 1 War Guilt Question Rise in Nationalism
Imperialism and International Rivalry Internal Stability
Complex Alliance System Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
German Blank Check and Quick Mobilization
Each of the above underlying causes can be neatly packed into the following acronym: M.A.I.N.
TTYN: Thinking about what we have learned so far about WW1 and the potential causes: breakdown the acronym M.A.I.N. What does each letter represent and how does each reflect a potential cause of WW1?
Militarism – Alliances – Imperialism - Nationalism
DBQ Time
Task:
Working cooperatively, each group shall respond to the seven documents
Individually, each student must prepare a thesis statement, which answers
the following essay prompt:
What were the primary causes of World War I
Individually, each student must complete a well-organized outline that
would be used if writing a thematic essay AND compliments thesis
statement.
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Total War
Topics we will learn about:
Schlieffen Plan
Trench Warfare
Battle of Verdun
Turning Points
Technology
Total War
Small Group Activity
WWI Geography Map
The First World War was truly ‘the Great War’
A Global Conflict.
Thirty-two nations would eventually be involved
28 nations constituted the Allied Powers
Geography – meant that the scale of the conflict meant that it was not
one war but many
Geography - made it very difficult for political and military leaders to
control events.
Total War
TTYN: What is Total War?
Criticism - Europe's political and military leaders believed that the ‘war
would be over by Christmas'. Why???
This belief was not based on complacency. The war was expected it to
be brutal and costly, in both blood and treasure. Many believed that no
state could be expected to sustain such a war for very long without
disastrous consequences.
Nations mobilize
People uprooted
Human Targets – factories, nobody was immune
All resources were mobilized
All available resources used in order to destroy another nation's ability to
engage in war.
Total War
Schlieffen Plan Germany feared a war on two fronts
Diplomatic solutions not viewed as options by the German government.
A military solution was sought instead.
The German high command decided that the best form of defense was attack.
The Plan – Germany would avoid a war on two fronts by knocking out one of
their enemies before the other could take the field. The enemy with the slowest
military mobilization was Russia. The French army would be in the field first.
France was therefore chosen to receive the first blow. Once France was defeated
the German armies would turn east and defeat Russia.
Two Assumptions: that it would take the Russians six weeks to put an army into
the field; and that six weeks was long enough to defeat France.
Wake-up Call - Russia put an army into the field in fifteen days.
A NEW KIND OF WAR
Resources found at end of Unit Plan
TRENCH WARFARE
A form of combat in which soldiers dug trenches, or deep ditches, to seek protection from enemy fire & to defend their positions
TTYN: What is Trench Warfare?
Trench Warfare
Failure of the Schlieffen Plan
Brits and French uncertain about how to stop the German advance
decided to ‘dig in’ and ordered the construction of Trenches to act as a
barrier against the attack.
LIFE IN THE TRENCHES lived very close to other soldiers
not much room
LIFE IN THE TRENCHES trenches could be miserable
sometimesrainstorms
○ “trench foot”sanitationlice & rats
POISON GAS
a new weapon used in the war
different types
blind
choke
burn
limited value
wind
gas masks
Trench Warfare Offensive attacks into No Mans Land Shell fire Going over the top Retreat The enemy goes forth Rats Lice Latrine marks the spot – Germans often shelled the latrines Trench Foot Gas
What I Know about WWI What I Learned about WWI
What I Want to Learn about WWI
K-W-L World War I - TTYN
Battle of Verdun“The Greatest Battle Ever”
The Battle of Verdun was the longest and most costly battle of the war.
It would dominate much of the fighting of 1916, forcing France’s allies to fight
battles that might otherwise not have been fought, or to alter the timing of their
offensives to provide indirect aid to the French.
By the end of the battle the French and Germans between them had lost close to
one million men.
By the winter of 1915-16, German General Erich von Falkenhayn was convinced
that the war could only be won in the west
Battle of Verdun“The Greatest Battle Ever”
The Germans massed artillery to the north and east of Verdun to pre-empt the
infantry advance with intensive artillery bombardment.
Although French intelligence had warned of his plans, these warnings were ignored
by the French Command.
Consequently, Verdun was utterly unprepared for the initial bombardment on the
morning of 21 February 1916.
German infantry attacks followed that afternoon and met little resistance for the first
four days.
Battle of Verdun“The Greatest Battle Ever”
French reinforcements managed to slow the German advancement
By July, the Germans could no longer afford to commit new troops to Verdun and,
at a cost of some 400,000 French casualties and a similar number of Germans
Germany had failed to bleed France to death and from October to the end of the
year
French offensives regained the forts and territory they had lost earlier.
French losses were 61,000 dead, 101,000 missing and 216,000 wounded, a total of
378,000 while German losses were 142,000 killed or missing and 187,000 wounded,
for a total of 329,000. Other sources give higher figures – French losses of 543,000
and German losses of 434,000.
Battle lasted almost an entire year
Turning Points
Two crucial events which made 1917 a turning point in world history were the US
entry into the war and the Russian withdrawal from the war
Ludendorff's Spring Offensive and the Allied Response
Mobilized Killed Wounded
British Empire 8 900 000 1 000 000 2 000 000
France 8 400 000 1 360 000 4 000 000
Russia 12 000 000 1 700 000 5 000 000
USA 1 750 000 80 000 180 000
Italy 5 600 000 460 000 900 000
Germany 11 000 000 1 800 000 4 200 000
Austria-Hungary 7 800 000 1 200 000 3 000 000
Turkey 2 850 000 650 000 950 000
Technology
World War I is significant because it marked the debut of
many new types of weapons and was the first major war to
“benefit” from technological advances in radio, electrical
power, and other technologies
TTYN: How might technology change or influence war?
Women of War
Women in factories Police Forces Nurses Suffrage in 1919-1920
Pair and Share: The Technology of WWI ?
What I Know about WWI What I Learned about WWI
What I Want to Learn about WWI
K-W-L World War I - TTYN
Poets of the Lost Generation
Siegfried Sassoon
Wilfred Owen
Robert Graves
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) "Dulce et Decorum Est "
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned our backsAnd towards our distant rest began to trudge.Men marched asleep. Many had lost their bootsBut limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hootsOf tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! -- An ecstasy of fumbling,Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;But someone still was yelling out and stumblingAnd flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under I green sea, I saw him drowning.In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.If in some smothering dreams you too could paceBehind the wagon that we flung him in,And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;If you could hear, at every jolt, the bloodCome gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cudOf vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, --My friend, you would not tell with such high zestTo children ardent for some desperate glory,The old lie: Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.
DreamersBY SIEGFRIED SASSOON
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
In the great hour of destiny they stand,
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.
Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win
Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives.
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin
They think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives.
I see them in foul dug-outs, gnawed by rats,
And in the ruined trenches, lashed with rain,
Dreaming of things they did with balls and bats,
And mocked by hopeless longing to regain
Bank-holidays, and picture shows, and spats,
And going to the office in the train.
Cultural Disillusionment
Otto Dix
Focus on Disfigurement and Trauma
Hatred for Authorities
The War to End All Wars
Fourteen Points
Reduce Armaments
The Paris Peace Settlement
Association of Nations
Popular Determination
Versailles Treaty
War Guilt Clause
Reparations
Weak League of Nations
To Be Continued during our unit on the
Interwar Period
Readings & Resources
Readings:
Trench Warfare ResourcesUse your split note-taking skills!
Essay on Trench WarfareAlthough trench warfare defined the First World War, none of the combatants expected it. All the armies and commanders planned for wars of movement. Within months, however, it became clear that the power of modern weapons -- particularly quick firing artillery and the machine gun -- made it too dangerous for soldiers to remain in the open. The solution was to dig trenches from which the soldiers could fight while remaining under cover. Attacks against these dug-in defenders were usually repulsed with appalling casualties. The war was reduced to a stalemate.The early trenches were unconnected holes in the earth. They quickly developed into a complex system. Behind the front line of trenches lay a secondary trench line. The trenches themselves were built in a ziz-zag pattern, to contain the blast from enemy shells and prevent the enemy, should he capture part of a trench, shooting along the entire line of the trench. The trenches, usually four or five feet deep (less than 2m), were further built up with three (1m) feet of sandbags. Wooden duckboards formed a walkway over the sludge of water and mud. There were dugouts to shelter troops, firing steps to let the soldiers see above the sandbag parapet to shoot at the enemy, and periscopes to let them observe the other side without exposing themselves to fire. No matter how well built, trenches were wet and muddy, infested with rats, and worst of all, within range of enemy artillery and sniper fire.The great offensives of the war are well known, but most of the soldiers' time in the trenches was spent doing sentry duty, working on improving defences, writing letters, or just waiting for something to happen. Units staged night raids to capture prisoners and gain information; these raids could vary from a few men to hundreds of attackers in multiple parties. Unless actually attacking, soldiers were relatively safe in the trenches. But the front line troops suffered from great stress. Units were rotated through the front lines regularly, to give the men time in the rear areas.When an attack was ordered, the men "went over the top," and advanced towards the enemy trenches. They were now vulnerable to artillery and machine gun fire. With the ground churned up into craters full of thick mud, the troops could only move slowly. The results could be terrible and units could lose most of their men in just a few hours.
“Break of Day in the Trenches’By Isaac Rosenberg
The darkness crumbles awayIt is the same old druid Time as ever,
Only a live thing leaps my hand,A queer sardonic rat,
As I pull the parapet’s poppyTo stick behind my ear.
Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knewYour cosmopolitan sympathies,
Now you have touched this English handYou will do the same to a German
Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasureTo cross the sleeping green between.
It seems you inwardly grin as you passStrong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes,
Less chanced than you for life,Bonds to the whims of murder,
Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,The torn fields of France.
What do you see in our eyesAt the shrieking iron and flameHurled through still heavens?
What quaver -what heart aghast?Poppies whose roots are in men’s veins
Drop, and are ever dropping;But mine in my ear is safe,
Just a little white with the dust.
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SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES
By Siegfried Sassoon
I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
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.
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Letters from Reg Knight, on active service during World War I.My Dear Brother, A few lines to try and tell you what it is like out hear. I am giving no state secrets away, only telling bare facts, so I think I can sighn my name on the back, I did intend to write to you a few days ago, but there was an awful din going on we were staying in a cellar in the day and working in the trenches or in front of the trenches at night. It was impossible to sleep on account of the noise and the shells kept stricking the house and pieces of it kept falling, so I thought I would leave it till we got back, for we go back for a day or two, but work just as hard when we get back, but we get two or three nights in, so we don’t mind. As you will see there has been some very heavy fighting round this way for the last two weeks, you say Brother you were confused to hear of me being in the front line of trenches, why. I have been at it since the end of August, and without a rest we out here are wondering if ever they will relieve us, and wonder “Will they ever come” It takes us all our time to keep together. You will understand that when I tell you we keep being moved to the places where the fighting is going on, at the present time I have got a splitting headache, owing to the use of the Gass used against us, but that is nothing, there was a big movement in this place a few days ago, and we went to the trenches in daylight; we saw the Germans coming in to attack but no one knocked us off work. I was Orderlie to one of our officers that day; and during the day we went across a piece of open ground, and they turned a machine gun on us but thank God I had the presence of mind to lay flat down, or I should not be telling you this, after they had found their position they started shelling, and it was hell with the lid off what with gasping for Breath and expectin to be blown to pieces, to say nothing of being unable to see. we have lost a lot of men this last few weeks, and about twenty horses, rather a sad thing happened the other night we were out doing barbed wire in front of the trenches, they had been warned that we were out there, we had almost finished when two of our men were shot right through the head by our own people, but things like that are not talked of in the papers.
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Letters from Reg Knight, on active service during World War I….continued I was in the ‘City’ the other day I expect you know the one I mean, and it was one mass of ruins, and two or three streets were on fire in fact it has been burning for eight days, and the sights were horrible, dead horses in the streets and the stench was vile, wounded horse wandering about leaving a trail of blood in their wake, and ..?? horses ??… in fact it was a city of the dead, one part of horses in one place and the other in another. I caught one the other night while out on a message and the poor thing was frightened to death, I gave it a feed and tried to get it along with me out of shell fire; but it was too frightened to move and I though I should have to give him up as the shells were coming a bit close but he came around and one of the Officers was good enough to bring him back to our dug outs, when I got back to our cellar they were collecting the wounded, there was about a hundred of these on stretchers, RAMC had brought them out and put them on the road, and the poor Devils were groaning and shivering with the cold, while the RAMC were crouching in the houses, our cook made some tea we giving him our rations to do so, so that the wounded could have a drink to warm them, and before God in Heaven, the RAMC were drinking the tea and leaving the wounded with out any, the same night a shell burst in the next door to ours and a scotchman had his foot blown off, all the medical chaps made a scoot for it. And the sight it was to see that poor chap try to run, with a footless leg, almost turned me over, but I managed to stop his rush, and between us we did our best. It is only this last month that I have seen a private of the RAMC within half a mile of the firing line, the same night as this scotchman was wounded, the medicals left two dead men by the roadside they were there two days, till we buried them. The other day I was with the Officer and the sight I saw would make you cry there were men lying in the road like cattle, they had been killed two or three days before, some of them in their full kit I saw one poor chap belonging to the same Company as Greg, he had been on carrying ammunition, we asked him what he was doing and he told us his mates had been killed in the afternoon, and there he was in the evening still watching them and sure enough we found his mates all in a heap by a ditch. Dear Brother I hope I have not wearied you but I hope you will understand, for I believe those at home think we are having a fine time, what with yarns of Coffee Shops just behind the fighting lines and the yarns we get baths, and have reading tents is all damn lies, all we have is filth and misery. Will tell you more if you want to know. One favour if you can. and it is a disk about as big as a penny: like this – with this on it
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21704 R.F.Knight C. of E. Royal Engineers For I have lost my one and cannot get another one. I hope you can manage it.love to all at Home xxx Brother Reg hope you will manage to sort it out, mind the pages are mixed. love to all Reg xxx
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Audiohttp://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-world-war/interviews/025015-1510-e.html
Assessment
WWI Short-Answer ID’s
Nationalism Imperialism Total War
Battle of Verdun Technology Trench Warfare
Militarism Alliances Franz Ferdinand
Triple Alliance Balkan Powder Keg The Black Hand
Triple Entente Schlieffen Plan Siegfried Sassoon
M.A.I.N Pan-Slavism