Factoids by Bart Verdriet https://padlet.com/bartverdriet/l1limpltpwvn Gemaakt door Bodine Wolters & Bart Verdriet en-us 2018-11-09 19:29:46 UTC 2025-10-27 13:55:50 UTC hello@padlet.com Factoid 1. bartverdriet https://padlet.com/bartverdriet/l1limpltpwvn/wish/302745752 1.     The most successful fighter pilot of the entire war was German fighter pilot Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (1892-1918), or the "Red Baron." He shot down 80 planes, more than any other WWI pilot. He died after being shot down near Amiens. France's René Fonck (1894-1953) was the Allies’ most successful fighter pilot, shooting down 75 enemy planes.[3] 
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]]> 2018-11-09 19:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/bartverdriet/l1limpltpwvn/wish/302745752 Fatoid 2. bartverdriet https://padlet.com/bartverdriet/l1limpltpwvn/wish/302745871 1.     In early 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann to Germany's minister in Mexico. The telegraph encouraged Mexico to invade U.S. territory. The British kept it a secret from the U.S. for more than a month. They wanted to show it to the U.S. at the right time to help draw the U.S into the war on their side.[4]
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]]> 2018-11-09 19:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/bartverdriet/l1limpltpwvn/wish/302745871 Factoid 4. bartverdriet https://padlet.com/bartverdriet/l1limpltpwvn/wish/302746320 1.     It was a war of innovation. Advances in weaponry and military technology provoked tactical changes as each side tried to gain an advantage over the other. The introduction of aircraft into war left soldiers and civilians vulnerable to attacks from above for the first time. Major innovations were also made in manufacturing, chemistry and communications. Medical advances made the First World War the first major conflict in which British deaths in battle outnumbered deaths caused by disease.
 https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/5-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-first-world-war ]]> 2018-11-09 19:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bartverdriet/l1limpltpwvn/wish/302746320 Factoid 5 bartverdriet https://padlet.com/bartverdriet/l1limpltpwvn/wish/302746575 1.     Chemical weapons were first used in WW1. Using poison gas was considered a war crime, but tear gas wasn’t considered to be a conflict by the troops. The Germans were the first to use lethal gases when they used a chlorine gas attack. Later they also developed and used the most effective gas of the First World War — mustard gas. The British were shocked at the German use of poison gas, but developed their own gas warfare to retaliate.
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]]> 2018-11-09 19:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bartverdriet/l1limpltpwvn/wish/302746575 Factoid 6. bartverdriet https://padlet.com/bartverdriet/l1limpltpwvn/wish/302747322 1.     British Army generals were banned from going “over the top”. A stereotype of the war was that people high up in the military were afraid to fight and used the ordinary soldiers instead. Actually, there were so many British generals that wanted to fight they had to be banned. This was because if they were killed, the experience of a general would be lost and make it more difficult to fight the war.
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]]> 2018-11-09 19:46:35 UTC https://padlet.com/bartverdriet/l1limpltpwvn/wish/302747322 Factoid 3. bartverdriet https://padlet.com/bartverdriet/l1limpltpwvn/wish/302748215 1.     Although Germany may have forced the hand of the European powers in the summer of 1914, it did not cause war. Germany was not responsible for creating the atmosphere in which war was a probability. WWI broke out against a background of rivalry between the world’s great powers, including Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Austria-Hungry, Italy, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan. The previous 40 years were characterized by increasing nationalism, imperialism. militarism, and various alliances.[4]
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