1. Trench Warfare Life of Soldiers U.S. Neutrality WW1
Mr. Doherty / Mrs. T

2. Fighting
WW1 most of the fighting involved trench warfare

10. Reasons to Fight in Trenches
Protection from small fire arms
Difficult to invade
Easy to make

11. The Trench: Important points
Advantages:
easy to make, easy to defend, cheap to build, don’t need lots of men to defend them.
Disadvantages:
wet, cold, hard to get in an out of without being seen by the enemy. Trenches were very dirty and unhygienic as there was no running water or flushing toilets.

15. Trench Foot

17. Trench Rats

19. Trench Rat Quotes
"I saw some rats running from under the dead man’s greatcoat, enormous rats, fat with human flesh. My heart pounded as we edged towards one of the bodies... the skull was bare, stripped of flesh, the eyes devoured and from the yawning mouth leapt a rat."

20. Trench Rat Quotes
One soldier wrote, “The rats were huge. They were so big they would eat a wounded man if he couldn’t defend himself.”

23. Soldiers Reality of Fighting Boredom

27. WW1 Constructed Response
Open up to page 4 in your packet on the back

28. U.S. NEUTRALITY
Under President Woodrow Wilson, the U.S. developed an official policy of neutrality.
Stay
Out of
The War?
Join
The
War?

29. U.S. TRADE
Trade was booming because the U.S. sold food, arms, and other supplies to the Allies.

30. U-BOATS
German submarines used to blockade Great Britain.

32. PROPOGANDA
Spreading of ideas that help a cause or hurt an opposing cause.

37. Student Constructed Response
Packet Page 7 on the back