1. What new weapons and methods were used in the Trenches?
L.O: To understand each weapon and how it was used.
To be able to evaluate the effectiveness of these weapons.

2. A B
What weapon is being used in A?
What weapon caused this to happen in B? C D E
What are C an example of?
Why would weapon D be useful
In the Trenches?
What is E?

3. Example of artillery use: The creeping barrage

4. Started to use field guns And armour piercing bullets to
By 1918 German troops
Started to use field guns
And armour piercing bullets to
Fire at the tanks.
Chlorine and Phosgene gas
Caused suffocation. Mustard
Gas ate away the soldiers lungs.
Artillery moved forward in stages whilst troops Advanced; but could accidentally kill their own troops.
They Could fire bullets a minute meaning any attack across No-mans land would be expensive.
Guns could fire
Shells from a distance
Of 13 KM away.
Germans had 100,000 machine
Guns by 1918
Only by 1917 at
Cambrai were tanks
Successful- however
They blasted through
Enemy lines too quickly.
The flamethrower was difficult to operate and could only be safely fired from a trench which were often too far apart from each other.
The fuel would also only last for about 2 minutes.[
Gas masks were created to limit
the impact making gas attacks ineffective.
As a result only 3,000 British soldiers died
Of gas during the war.
Gas was used as a tool of fear for
Soldiers used to artillery attacks.
In 1915 to reduce the power
Of enemy machine guns the
Germans launched gas shelves
Into French trenches killing hundreds
Of French troops before their attack
Tanks moved at a walking pace and more
Than half broke down before they reached the German Trenches.

5. Group work- 2 people.
Give a rating 1-5 on each weapons effectiveness with 5 being the highest
A class presentation explaining these ratings.

6. Class vote
1 Least Effective 2 3 4
5 Most effective

7. Main activity- Look at the clues on the board and give a reason for why there was a stalemate between the opposing armies.
1 Minute for each one.

8. Why is there stalemate?

9. Artillery guns became much bigger and more accurate during the First World War

10. It was clear
That the use Of
Horses as a tactic
would Not help
in a Trench war
with the use of
Machine guns.

11. How could this stop an infantry attack?

12. Is poisonous gas an effective way to stop the stalemate?

13. Were Tanks as a weapon good enough to stop the stalemate?

14. No Mans land??????

15. List other reasons why it was difficult for different armies to break the stalemate (use the diagram).

16. Plenary
I think the most effective weapon used in the Trenches was…. This is because… I think the least effective weapon used in the Trenches was… This is because….