WW1 PowerPoint. By Charlie Tresidder

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1 WW1 PowerPoint By Charlie Tresidder

2 Which countries were on each side?

3 Which countries were on each side? The war was made up of 3 groups of countries. They were the Allied Powers, the Central Powers and the Neutral countries. Some of the main Allied powers were Great Britain, France, Italy and the Russian Empire The main Central Powers were Germany and Austria/Hungary. The main Neutral countries were Spain, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

4 Why do we wear a poppy? Poppies are used to show we remember soldiers who died in war. There is a poem called In Flanders Fields. It was written in WW1 by a doctor from Canada after a friend of his who was a soldier, died in the war.

5 In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

6 Flanders Field Flanders is an area in Belgium. Flanders Field is the name we use for the battlefields in WW1. Soldiers who died were buried on the battlefields, quite often where they fell. The battlefields were dug up lots. Poppies started to grow because they grow on land that has been dug up lots.

7 Why do we wear a poppy? In 1918, after the war had finished, a lady called Moina Michael wrote a poem called We Shall Keep the Faith which she wrote after reading the Flanders Field poem. In tribute to Flanders Field, she declared that she would always wear a red poppy as a symbol of remembering the soldiers who died in the War. Other people copied her and it carried on from there. Moina Michael

8 We Shall Keep the Faith by Moina Michael, November 1918 Oh! You who sleep in Flanders Fields, Sleep sweet - to rise anew! We caught the torch you threw And holding high, we keep the Faith With All who died. We cherish, too, the poppy red That grows on fields where valor led; It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies, But lends a lustre to the red Of the flower that blooms above the dead In Flanders Fields. And now the Torch and Poppy Red We wear in honor of our dead. Fear not that ye have died for naught; We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought In Flanders Fields.

9 What happened to the Olympics in WW1? Olympics happen every 4 years. There should have been some in 1916 in Germany but they had to be cancelled because of the War. The next games happened in 1920, in Belgium, after the war had ended. Germany wasn t allowed to enter those Olympics because they were blamed for the war. They also weren t allowed to enter in After that, the ban was lifted and they were allowed to enter.

10 What did different countries wear in the War? GREAT BRITAIN GERMANY FRANCE

11 What did different countries wear in the War? ITALY RUSSIA AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

12 What did the trenches look like?

13 What did the trenches look like?

14 What was it like in the trenches? Soldiers had to stay in the trenches all day and all night unless they were ordered to cross No Man s Land They only had one hour s sleep at a time and then they rotated it so everyone had rest but there were always some people awake to watch for the enemy. It was very wet, dirty and smelly. The water caused some people to get Trench Foot which is a disease where they sometimes had to cut off your foot (if it was bad). Soldiers sleeping in a trench doesn t look very comfy! A bad case of trench foot

15 What was it like in the trenches? There were lots of creatures that they had to cope with including rats, lice, spiders and frogs. Some of the rats were the size of a cat! It was very smelly as the soldiers didn t wash very often and dead bodies were left on the ground. It was very boring because there wasn t much for the soldiers to do. The trenches filled with lots of water

16 What was it like in the trenches? This year, a historian, Andrew Robertshaw, decided to build a 60 feet trench in a field behind his home in Surrey to show people what a trench was really like. He had 30 volunteers to help him Andrew Robertshaw standing in the trench he built The trench in his field

17 What was it like in the trenches? Shows how narrow a trench was Using a periscope to look for the enemy

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