WW1 weapons
US floating mine
-designed to slow down ships
Airplanes
- great improvement from 1903
-used in one on one dog fighting
Baron manfred von richtofen
- the red baron
- famous piliot that shot down many planes
Animals at war
- animals tested the gas masks
Turkish massacre of the armenians
-over a million armenians were killed because they were hated
-they were killed the the people have turkey- turkey was in the central powers
-we do not officially declare this a geonocide because it would cause problems with turkey
WW1 war goals
-not many real goals in the beginning
-France
---wanted land back mostly- Alasace and lorraine from Germany
---get the saar basin back from Germany
---create independent Rhineland to create a buffer area between france and Germany
---cripple german military so they wouldn't have to worry about a German attack but only made them more powerful 20 years later and they took them over within 30 days
---get German colonies in Africa
---get turkish colonies in the Mid-East
Great britian
---get German colonies in africa
--- get turkish colonies in the Mid-East
Italy
---wanted land from Austria-Hungary
Russia
---wanted control of the Dardenelle and Bosporus straits in Turkey
Autria-Hungary
-self preservation- they were a crumbling empire
Germany
-wanted part of france
-wanted luxemburg and belgium
-wanted more of the western Russia
-make Austria-hungary and the balkans a "sphere of influence"
-take over french and british colonies in africa
United States
-to win and end the war
-wilsons 14 points- to make everyone get along and avoid another war- make the world a better and safer place
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