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.

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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.