WW1

World war one at sea

Jun 8, 1015

Germany and Britain made strides for there Naval power two both be great, in January 1915 Britain had a surprise attack on Germany The Biggest ship warfare was the Battle of Jutland Britain held on and won the Battle Germany after that Never attempted to try and take the seas back again

Trench Warfare

Feb 18, 1914

In world war one most of the battles were fought in trenches that means that it was a stalemate because no one was really moving ground. The trenches were very dirty and they could get trench foot from it, The trenches could get very crampes too.

Ralph Hills

Jun 18, 1914

Ralph Hills in the first part of his letter to his mom is talking about coming back to the business and it is going well. And he is about to go into the war.

Franz Ferdinand

Jul 17, 1914

Tensions were growing in Europe before the war actually broke out. But when Franz Ferdinand was Assassinated that was the spark that ignited the whole war he was the archduke of Austria Hungary.

New weapons in World war one

Mar 18, 1915

The machine gun was a new weapon used and it did a lot of damage because the fire rate was a lot quicker than a rifle that you have to reload a lot. So I think the machine gun played a big role .

Ralph Hills

Aug 19, 1915

He is talking about the weather being really hot upside and he wished he was back home because the weather was much cooler there.

Ralph Hills

Sep 16, 1916

He writes a letter about how the war is going and that no one is really making progress and they have to stay in these tranches a lot that none of them really like.

Propaganda

Dec 4, 1916

World war one Propaganda played a big role in the United States. Because the Propaganda Persuaded people to join the war or help out, That's why we got a lot more soldiers

Ralph Hills

Jun 8, 1917

He is always very thankful in his letters. And he is glad that he has people writing to him And he is appreciative that people take time out of there days to write him letter about how life is back home.

First tanks

Jun 18, 1917

The machine gun was a new weapon used and it did a lot of damage because the fire rate was a lot quicker than a rifle that you have to reload a lot. So I think the machine gun played a big role .

America Enters the war

Sep 14, 1917

First the Lusitania sinks and the was a British ship but Germany was using illegal submarine warfare and sunk the ship there were 100 us men onboard, Then the Zimmerman telegram was the 2nd reason they went into war because German sent a telegram to Mexico saying if they will help in the war that Germany would help mexico get the US territory back that they lost in the Mexican American war And that's why the United States entered World war one

Poppie Flowers

Apr 16, 1918

The Poppies played a big role to the people that passed in world war one there used to be big fields of them. I remember in elementary school when we had our veterans day assembly we handed out poppies

Ralph Hills

Apr 18, 1918

Ralph Hills is talking about the end of the war and That at some times the War was pretty hard but win it was over he felt happy and was glad to be down with it.

Treaty of Versailles

Apr 22, 1918

Notes: The Treaty of Versailles was the treaty that ended World war one. The Treaty was saying that Germany would be responsible for the whole war and they had to pay for all of the allies repairs.

Legacy of World War 1

Oct 11, 1918

World war one took 9 million lives and 21 million casualties World war one was known to be the war to end all wars but the name was changed after world war to begain and it was changed to world war one.