The Horror of Trench Warfare. World War I
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1 The Horror of Trench Warfare World War I
2 War in Europe (1)
3 The Western Front The war became a stalemate- trench warfare Trenches were long ditches surrounded by barbed wire to protect the troops. A WWI Trench
4 The Trench System
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6 Trench Warfare: Western Front 1914
7 Trench Warfare Trench warfare resulted in huge loss of life and little gains in territory. The only technique became to soften up the enemy trenches by bombarding them with artillery fire Send the soldiers over the top to try to take the enemy lines.
8 Trench Warfare Going over the top was dangerous The soldiers had to enter No man s land the area between the trenches where they were exposed to enemy fire. The trench could finally be taken with brutal hand-to-hand combat fought with bayonets, knives, and swords.
9 Trench Warfare: Living Conditions Lice Rats Cramped up Flooded trenches Diseases Decaying flesh
10 Trench Warfare Soldiers spent a lot of time waiting in the trenches Soldiers had to develop ways to pass the time and had to deal with the smell of rotting corpses, body parts, rats and mud that often filled the trenches.
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12 Dead bodies. Left to rot in the trenches because of the machine gun fire that kept the soldiers in the trenches An easy food source for rats and a place to breed disease
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14 Soldiers of all nations hunted the rats sometimes rations were short and meat was added to their diet
15 Picking lice from clothes
16 New War Technology
17 Trench Warfare: Technology New advancements in technology made WWI more deadly and dangerous than any war before it
18 The Machine Gun The machine gun (a gun that can be repeatedly fired without loading each time) increased the danger of going over the top.
19 British Vickers gun the Battle of the Somme
20 German Maxim MG 08/15 (for infantry soldier)
21 Italian Fiat-Revelli 6.5MM MOD.14
22 French Hotchkiss M1914
23 Austro-Hungarian MG-M.-07/12
24 Grenades 1 st made of empty bottles. American soldiersmany of whom had played baseballintroduced more accurate ways of throwing them.
25 POISON GAS (*used by both sides) A new weapon used in the war Different types Blind (bromacetone)* Choke (chlorine)* Burn/blister (mustard)* Limited value wind gas masks
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28 Belgian Uniforms and masks Australian Gas mask
29 Japanese gas mask U. S. gas mask
30 Gas Training
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32 Airplanes Airplanes are 1 st used in World War I- are used in trench warfare to scout the position of enemy lines.
33 Airplanes Later in the war, machine guns are mounted to planes and zeppelinsgiant blimps- and are used to drop bombs on the enemy.
34 1 st flight of a zeppelin (LZ1) in 1908 in Germany
35 The LZ4 w/stabilizers (1908)
36 LZ4 Wreckage after being caught in a storm
37 British Poster
38 Crater of a zeppelin bomb in Paris
39 A zeppelin bomb in the National Flight Museum (from 1916)
40 Old Trench Pictures in WWI
41 Boer Battle of Magersfontein in 1899 during the 2 nd Boer War
42 German Western Front in 1915 guarding entrance to a trench line in front of Arras
43 Cheshire Regiment Trench on the Somme in July 1916
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45 1 st Lancashire Fusiliers in a communication trench in 1916
46 French trench in northeastern France
47 Aerial view of opposing trench lines in 1917 British at top left, German at right and bottom
48 Trench construction diagram from 1914 (British)
49 Australians using a periscope rifle
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51 Breastwork trench at Armentieres in 1916
52 French 87 th Regiment Cote 34 at Verdun in 1916
53 A barber in the French trench
54 Battle of the Somme 1916
55 British tank rolling over a trench
56 Canadian soldiers prepare for action
57 British soldiers fighting in the trenches
58 Trenches today German frontline
59 A surviving trench at Verdun (2009)
60 German command bunker Somme
61 Trench near Ypres
62 German trench and bunker near Verdun
63 Trench Warfare: Analysis This was their new tactic in war. After the war, it had left horrific scars. Made many people not want to have another World War ever again; which is why WWI was called The War to End All Wars
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Green Jackets Rules for Napoleonic Skirmishes
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