1. The War to End All Wars!

2. Strategy Leads to trench warfare
Old fighting style – 1800’s – not suitable to modern battlefield.
Creates stalemate
Leads to trench warfare

3. Trench Warfare
Soldiers are forced to hide in trenches on the battlefield.
New weapons made the battlefield incredibly deadly.
Machine guns, mines, accurate, long range artillery, aerial bombardment.
“No man’s land” – area between opposing trenches filled with mines and barbed wire.