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a pause in fighting, temporary peace

Truce

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The Great War

AKA WW1

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the crime of betraying one's country

treason

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What was one of the greatest weapons of WW1?

Gas, Tank, Plane

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a long, narrow ditch.


trench

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Alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I, later joined by the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria

Central Powers in WWI

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Allies of WWI (Triple Entente)

Great Britain, France, and Russia, Serbia, later joined by the US

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Describe trench life

  • Trenches were muddy and filthy.

  • Rats

  • Lice

  • Disease

  • Cold

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large gas-filled balloon (used by Germany to bomb England)


Zeppelin

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The land between 2 opposing trenches

 No man’s land.

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On Christmas Day 1914, many of the soldiers celebrated an unplanned truce, what was the name of the truce?

Christmas Truce

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Did the officers agree with the soldiers during the Christmas Truce?

No

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What things did the soldiers do during the Christmas truce?

Sing, share gifts, play soccer

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U-boat

German submarine


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When did WW1 begin?

1914

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The Central Powers planned to conquer the Allies in the West before moving to the East to defeat Russia. ed

Schiefer Plan

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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

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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

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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

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A stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border. Movement of supplies. 

Eastern Front

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