World War ITrench Warfare
Opening Drill
• What are positives and negatives towards trench warfare?
The Trench: Important points
Advantages:
• easy to make• easy to defend• cheap to build• You don’t need a lot of men
to defend them.
Disadvantages:
• wet, cold• hard to get in and out of
without being seen by the enemy.
• Trenches were very dirty there was no running water or flushing toilets.
• Created a stalemate
Stalemate
Trench Warfare
• Dug themselves into the ground
• Horrible conditions– Dead bodies– Rats– Lice Trench Fever
• Caused the war to drag on
Soldiers fought from within the trenches It was usually tight quarters
An aerial photograph of the trenches First line of defense
In the trenches
Not all trenches were deep. Many nations fought together
Fighting
Sometimes an easy target
Dangers of Trench life
Trenchfoot
From having wet feet most of the time and nowhere to dry them out
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
Trench Fever
• Disease spread by lice • Fever, Pain in your legs, soreness• A month or more to recover
RATS!!!!!!
Soldiers of all nations hunted the rats– sometimes rations were short and meat was added to their diet
Exit Drill
• As you watch the clip list the expressions of the soldiers and the type of living conditions they had.