a pause in fighting, temporary peace
Truce
The Great War
AKA WW1
the crime of betraying one's country
treason
What was one of the greatest weapons of WW1?
Gas, Tank, Plane
a long, narrow ditch.

trench
Alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I, later joined by the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria
Central Powers in WWI
Allies of WWI (Triple Entente)
Great Britain, France, and Russia, Serbia, later joined by the US
Describe trench life
Trenches were muddy and filthy.
Rats
Lice
Disease
Cold
large gas-filled balloon (used by Germany to bomb England)
Zeppelin
The land between 2 opposing trenches
No man’s land.
On Christmas Day 1914, many of the soldiers celebrated an unplanned truce, what was the name of the truce?
Christmas Truce
Did the officers agree with the soldiers during the Christmas Truce?
No
What things did the soldiers do during the Christmas truce?
Sing, share gifts, play soccer
U-boat
German submarine

When did WW1 begin?
1914
The Central Powers planned to conquer the Allies in the West before moving to the East to defeat Russia. ed
Schiefer Plan
Battle in which French soldiers defeated the Germans during World War I, causing the Germans to retreat and abandon their Schlieffen Plan; occurred at a river in France; a second battle also happened at the Marne River
Battle of the Marne
A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany, on the one hand, and France and Britain, on the other.
Western Front
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
A policy that the Germans announced on January 1917 which stated that their submarines would sink any ship in the British waters
A stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border. Movement of supplies. 
Eastern Front