Trench Warfare and Weapons of World War I James Olson.

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Trench Warfare and Weapons of World War I James Olson

Trench Warfare

► Form a fighting in lines ► Trenches are dug out ► Machine guns- weapons of choice ► Sandbags were used

The Trench ► 12 feet deep ► Zigzagging ► Around Western Europe ► Miles of them

Trenches ► Disadvantages ► Insects ► Rodents ► Flooding ► Trench foot ► Trapped gas ► Advantages ► Easy to defend ► No man’s land ► Protection from Grenades

No Man’s Land A barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell crates and filled with barb wire

Defending the Trench ► Used Sandbags ► Barb wire- stop foot invasion ► Dirt as a barrier ► Deeper= Better

Trench is Home ► Not in the open field ► Gave Protection

Trench Weapons ► Machine guns ► Gas ► Tanks ► Trench knife ► Grenades

Trench Men ► Wore helmets ► Gas masks ► Carried machine guns

What Country’s Helmet?

Tanks ► Top speed of 4 miles per hour

Airplanes

Airplanes Roles ► First war with airplanes deployed in a large scale ► Bombed with airplanes ► Machine guns in airplanes

Germany Battleship

Game Time! ► List benefits of a trench ► List disadvantages of a trench ► List parts of a trench

Sources ► chlife.htm chlife.htm chlife.htm ► warfare-in-wwi warfare-in-wwi warfare-in-wwi ► trench.htm trench.htm trench.htm ► rld_War_1_Trench_Warfare rld_War_1_Trench_Warfare rld_War_1_Trench_Warfare ► History Book