Unit 6: World War I (1914 – 1920)

New Weapons and Personalities

Weapons/ Personalities

In your notes, make a T-Chart like the one below and complete it as you watch the presentation.

New Weapons Personalities

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Manfred von Richthofen

“The Red Baron” Richthofen’s

Flying Circus Shot down 80

Allied Aircraft before his death in 1917

Most feared Ace of the Great War

The Baron’s Fokker Dr-1 Triplane

Eddie Rickenbacker

Most famous American “Ace”

Shot down 27 German Aircraft

Had been a race car driver before war

Flew for famous “Hat in Ring” squadron

He survived the war and helped modernize America’s Air Corps

Fokker’s Machine Gun

This invention by Dutch aviator Ferdinand Fokker enabled pilots to fire upon enemy craft without shooting off own propellers.

German Balloonist Bailing Out

A German Zeppelin

“Little Willie”

This is a picture of an early British tank affectionately called “Little Willie.”

British Mark I Tank

This photo shows the dangers associated with early armored craft.

This one got stuck attempting to jump a trench.

Note the location of the cannons.

Chlorine Gas in “No Man’s Land”

Poisonous Gas delivered via artillery

The vapors would settle in the hollows

Usually fatal to unsuspecting troops

The effectiveness of this terrible weapon often depended on the direction of the wind

Gas Masks

One effective variation of the gas mask was invented by Garrett Morgan, a native of Paris, Kentucky

Also credited with stop light

French Flamethrowers

Maxim Machine Gun

Germany’s “Big Bertha”

420 MM (16.5”) Howitzer

Moved by rail 285 man crew 1 ton shell A 1918 model

shelled Paris from a range of 7.5 miles!

A German U-Boat

Belgian Periscope

Many strange weapons such as this one were tried in many instances to break the stalemate of trench warfare

Kaiser Wilhelm II

The German Kaiser in an Austrian dress uniform (1 of 200)

Epitome of Militarism

Notice his left arm

The Austrian Archduke

Archeduke Francis Ferdinand and the Dutchess Sophie with family

Czar Nicholas II

The Czar of Russia, later deposed and assassinated by the Bolsheviks along with his family

1st Cousin to the Kaiser and Britain’s Crown Prince

President Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson Re-elected in 1916

because he “kept us out of war”

Saw WW I as the beginning of peace

Later disillusioned due to failure of Fourteen Points