Five Significant Artifacts...
Archduke Franz Ferdinand's Car
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was from the Austria-Hungary empire. He came to Sarajevo On June 28, 1914 where he was it wanted. He rode in a 1911 open topped Gräf and stift double phaeton. When Franz Ferdinand came to Sarajevo the black hand already had the murder planned. When Franz and his wife went down Appel Quay the black hand lined down the street with weapons the second person in line threw a bomb and missed they didn’t succeed by killing Franz Ferdinand They all abandoned the plan after the first try. Franz Ferdinand’s Driver took the wrong turn on Fraz Joseph street; Gavrilo Princip who was apart of the black hand went out for a sandwich after the plan failed. He saw that Franz and his wife were coming his way. So he killed both of them.
Link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/10640588/First-World-War-Around-the-war-in-a-handful-of-objects.html
Link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/10640588/First-World-War-Around-the-war-in-a-handful-of-objects.html
Prosthetic limb
At the end of World War I the flood of returning combats demanded for Prosthetic limbs because they were too expensive and only the wealthy could afford them. Which the prosthetics were typically made out of wood but technology advanced which changed and became into a metal limb. A small British company called Desoutter Bros and a U.S maker of metal legs, J.E Hanger got a contract with the UK to produce prosthetic limbs for the injured who attended in the war.
Link: https://graphics.wsj.com/100-legacies-from-world-war-1/prosthetics
Link: https://graphics.wsj.com/100-legacies-from-world-war-1/prosthetics
Zimmermann telegram
The Zimmermann telegram is a coded message that the Germans sent to Mexico to make an alliance with them Mexico didn’t really take it too serious. In the message/telegramIt talked about the unrestricted submarine warfare and that Germany will help Mexico get back Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. Which angered the United States and is one of the reasons why the United States got involved in world war one in 1917.
Link: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/us-in-wwi/v/zimmermann-telegram
Link: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/us-in-wwi/v/zimmermann-telegram
Gas Masks
In 1914, a chemist named Fritz Haber experimented with chlorine gas to be used in the French trenches. In April 1915 the German launch their first chlorine gas bomb against the French Trenches. In April 1915 the German launch their first Chlorine gas bomb against the French army. The French witnessed a greenish yellow cloud of smoke coming towards the trenches. The French said it smelled like pineapple and pepper. At first the French thought that the Germans were using a smokescreen. Until they felt a burning pain in the chest. Chlorine gas would destroy the respiratory organisms and lead to a slow death by The French witnessed a greenish yellow cloud of smoke coming towards their trenches. The French said it smelled like pineapple and pepper. At first the French thought that the Germans were using a smokescreen. Until they felt a burning pain in their chest. Chlorine gas would destroy the respiratory organisms and lead to a slow death by asphyxiation. At first the soldiers word counter a gas attack by using cotton pad masks Or hanker chiefs that been soaked in urine. As the war continued, soldiers had gas masks and anti-Asphyxiation respirators.
Link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vmir6SxYNII
Link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vmir6SxYNII
Barbed wire
Barbed wire was first created in 1867 for farmers to control their cattle but in World war one soldiers will leave them around the trenches To protect themselves and to get the allies. When the allies would walk into the Barbwire their skin, Clothes Or other materials would get caught on to it which would make it easy to shoot them because they weren’t moving.
Link: https://prezi.com/3oqdarvclj2r/barbed-wire-in-ww1/
Link: https://prezi.com/3oqdarvclj2r/barbed-wire-in-ww1/