Trench Warfare & Technology

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Trench Warfare & Technology World War I -- Trench Warfare & Technology

A Bloody Conflict It was the first major war since the Industrial Revolution. Technology made it a long, bloody fight Trench warfare: network of ditches used for protection No Man’s Land: space between opposing trenches Trench Warfare

New Weapons Slow & unreliable, they could cross trenches & crush barb wire MACHINE GUNS TANKS Made it difficult to capture enemy trenches; could gun down hundreds of men POISON GAS Caused blindness & suffocation

Life in the Trenches ZEPPLINS Germans used To drop bombs AIRCRAFT First for spying, then machine guns added ZEPPLINS Germans used To drop bombs AIRCRAFT U-BOATS Used on supply & military ships

Life in the Trenches Living with the dead RATS Trench foot

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