Helen Burrey

Helen Burrey was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1892. She was of Irish and Alsace-Lorraine ancestry. She had eight brothers and sisters, only two of which survived into adulthood. When she was fourteen, she began work at a department store in Pittsburgh called Pogues. Then, later on, she left her job at the department store to attend nursing school at St. Francis Hospital.
When World War I broke out in 1914, Helen was 22 years old. She graduated from St Francis Hospital and volunteered as an army nurse. She was one of the first nurses to be sent to France where she would work on a hospital troop train. She was one of the first three nurses assigned to work on hospital trains of the American Expeditionary Forces. She was a reserve nurse of the Army Nurse Corps and a member of the nursing staff at a United States Army Base Hospitals located in Angers, France.
The Base Hospital received their first official order to provide army nurses for this service on July 14, 1917. Before then, Medical Corps attached to the trains had cared f or the wounded. Helen was assigned to a Hospital train along with two other army nurses: Edna Cooper and Grace O Donnell. They were told to leave the next day and board the train which would be stationed at Port Boulet, France. They arrived at Port Boulet the next day, July 15, and met Captain Goodwin, the commanding officer. They were to remain on with the train for five months.

Archduke Ferdinand

Archduke Ferdinand didn't treat the Serbian people to their liking therefore they supplied his murderer with the materials to kill him therefore he is a major catalyst in his death.

Schlieffen Plan

The forensic plan was the German General Staff's overall strategic plan for victory both on the Western Front against France and against Russia in the east, taking advantage of expected differences in the three countries' speed in preparing for war. It was executed to near victory in the first month of World War I; however, a French counterattack on the outskirts of Paris, the Battle of the Marne (combined with surprisingly speedy Russian offensives), ended the German offensive and resulted in years of trench warfare. The plan has been the subject of debate among historians and military scholars ever since.
yes it was successful in 1917

The Reb Baron

Was a famous pilot back in the early 1900's. He was famous because he was very good at air combat and he was a great pilot. He died in 1918 and was shot by someone who still to this very day is unknown.

Gas

Gas was used as a weapon in that they all are very deadly. They used them to kill the other soldiers during war. They used things like sulfur and nitrogen mustard gas which are classified as blister agents; there were also other gasses used but they were only to control riots and to maintain civil behavior. Sulfur mustard gas, when touched by a human, causes blisters that are very large in size. Nitogen mustard gas forms cyclic ammonium ions.

No man's land

Although used occasionally since the late medieval era to mean the contested land between two opposing armies, it is now a famous term from World War One, where it refers to the (often ruined) land between two opposing trench systems.

Questions are in red, Answers are in blue


1. Research weapons used in the Great War and explain how they are changing the face of war in 1918. Weapons to explore: flamethrower, tank, machine gun, submarine, airplane, and 3" mortar.


FLAME THROWER

• The Flammenwerfer was the most commonly used German flamethrower of WWII. Compressed nitrogen stored in small tank was piped into the large tank which is full of flame oil. The flame oil propelled by the compressed nitrogen left the large tank and traveled through the hose to the wand.

TANK

• A tank is a tracked armoured combat vehicle designed to engage enemies head-on, using direct fire from a large-calibre gun and supporting fire from machine guns.
  

MACHINE GUN

• A machine gun is a fully-automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rifle cartridges in quick succession from an ammunition belt or large-capacity magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute. The first machine guns were manually operated, for example, by turning a hand crank.
  

SUBMARINE

• A submarine is a watercraft that can operate underwater. Military submarines were first widely used in World War I and are used by all major navies today.

AIRPLANE

• Fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air craft where movement of the wings in relation to the aircraft is not used to generate lift.
  

• A mortar is a muzzle-loading indirect fire weapon that fires shells at low velocities, short ranges, and high-arcing ballistic trajectories. It typically has a barrel length less than 15 times its caliber.