from the book i m going to read a little here and there and explain what happened in the book. .. does anyone know how to do a split screen? i apologize. put it under the window. there? there you go. [inaudible conversations] the war started in 1914. the fascination of ferdinand of austria. austria declared war on serbia. germany was austria s ally. the germans were hoping to surround paris quickly. in about a week, the casualties equaled the number of characters in the civil war, the american civil war. both sides met, dug in tried to outflank each other, until there was a trench line. about 400 miles along. originally they thought the war would be over in a few months. in the battlefield there were sort of out of date combat strategies. they were having cavalry charges into artillery fire and men kicking soccer balls into machine guns. the u.s. sentiment was to stay out of the war. wilson was elected on a campaign slogan saying he kept us out of the war to compare