1. Trench Warfare Life of Soldiers WW1

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.

14. Trench Foot

16. Trench Rats

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

21. Soldiers Reality of Fighting Boredom

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

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

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

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