Bombing Parties As an attack or raid reached an enemy trench the

grenadiers would be responsible for racing down the trench and throwing grenades into each dugout they passed: this invariably succeeded in purging dugouts of their human occupants in an attempt at surrender (often not accepted as they were promptly shot or stabbed).

Jam-Tin Bombs So-named because they were literally made out of jam tins, each was packed with gun-cotton or dynamite, together with pieces of scrap metal.A length of fuse would project through the top of the tin, with each inch of fuse giving approximately 1.25 seconds delay.

Digging Trenches

“Little Willie”

This first tank was given the nickname 'Little Willie' (soon followed by 'Big Willie')

Thirty-six tanks led the way in an attack at Flers.  Although the attack was itself successful - the sudden appearance of the new weapon stunned their German opponents.

Weighing some 14 tons and bearing 12 feet long track frames, the tank could carry three people in cramped conditions.  Its top speed was three miles per hour on level ground, two miles per hour on rough terrain.

Tank Production 1916-18

YearUK France Germany Italy USA

1916 150 - - - -

1917 1,277 800 - - -

1918 1,391 4,000 20 6 84

Number 1 infantry Weapon

Which gun belongs to which country?

German Mauser

British Lee-Enfield

French Lebel

French Berthier

U.S. Springfield

Austro-Hungarian Steyr-Mannlicher

French 75 Gun

Machine Guns

Poison GasAnonymous British eyewitness account of the German gas attack at Ypres on 22 April 1915

“Utterly unprepared for what was to come, the [French] divisions gazed for a short while spellbound at the strange phenomenon they saw coming slowly toward them.Like some liquid the heavy-coloured vapour poured relentlessly into the trenches, filled them, and passed on.”

For a few seconds nothing happened; the sweet-smelling stuff merely tickled their nostrils; they failed to realize the danger.  Then, with inconceivable rapidity, the gas worked, and blind panic spread.Hundreds, after a dreadful fight for air, became unconscious and died where they lay - a death of hideous torture, with the frothing bubbles gurgling in their throats and the foul liquid welling up in their lungs.  With blackened faces and twisted limbs one by one they drowned - only that which drowned them came from inside and not from out.

Others, staggering, falling, lurching on, and of their ignorance keeping pace with the gas, went back.A hail of rifle fire and shrapnel mowed them down, and the line was broken.  There was nothing on the British left - their flank was up in the air.  The northeast corner of the salient around Ypres had been pierced.  From in front of St. Julien away up north toward Boesinghe there was no one in front of the Germans.

Casualties From Gas - The Numbers

CountryTotal

CasualtiesDeath

Austria-Hungary 100,000 3,000

British Empire 188,706 8,109

France 190,000 8,000

Germany 200,000 9,000

Italy 60,000 4,627

Russia 419,340 56,000

USA 72,807 1,462

Others 10,000 1,000

http://www.firstworldwar.com/index.htm

CountryTotal

Mobilized Forces

Killed WoundedTotal

Casualties

Casualties as % of Forces

ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERSRussia 12,000,000 1,700,000 4,950,000 9,150,000 76.3British Empire

8,904,467 908,371 2,090,212 3,190,235 35.8

France 8,410,000 1,357,800 4,266,000 6,160,800 73.3Italy 5,615,000 650,000 947,000 2,197,000 39.1United States

4,355,000 116,516 204,002 323,018 7.1

Japan 800,000 300 907 1,210 0.2TOTAL 42,188,810 5,142,631 12,800,706 22,062,427 52.3ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERSGermany 11,000,000 1,773,700 4,216,058 7,142,558 64.9Austria-Hungary

7,800,000 1,200,000 3,620,000 7,020,000 90.0

TOTAL 22,850,000 3,386,200 8,388,448 15,404,477 67.4GRAND TOTAL

65,038,810 8,528,831 21,189,154 37,466,904 57.5

After years of fighting, dying, starving, and suffering…

The Soldiers were finally coming home!

The years after the war are known as– the

Twenties.Roaring

A time of:

Gangsters

A time of:Baseball’s Greatest Players

And Scandals

A time of:Prohibition

BootleggersSpeakeasies

A time of:Carnivals Jazz

Talking movies!

A time of:

Flappers Women’s Rights

Oops, I’m 80 Oops, I’m 80 years offyears off

A time of:

New ArtNew ArtAbstract:Abstract:

SurrealismSurrealism

CubismCubism

ExpressionismExpressionism

A time of:New Architectu

reSky Scrapers

Organic

Environmental

VernacularVernacular

A time of:

New New WealthWealth

AutomobilesAutomobiles

TypewritersTypewriters

CamerasCameras

RefrigeratorsRefrigerators

A time of:Consumption

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Coca Cola

Campbell’s Soup

Quaker Oats

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Music:

12. Armstrong, Louis. Lonesome Blues

13. Armstrong, Louis. Fireworks

14. Oliver, King. Sugar Foot Stomp

15. Whiteman, Paul. Charleston(1)

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