3. Trench warfare
Soldiers fought each other by digging miles of parallel trenches to protect themselves from enemy fire.
Armies traded huge losses of human life for small land gains.
“The men slept in mud, washed in mud, ate mud, and dreamed mud.”

4. Trench warfare The space between the trenches called “no man’s land”
Western Front became a “terrain of death”
500 miles from the North Sea to the Swiss border

5. Life in the trench

6. Aerial view of trenchesM A N’ S L D

10. Compare

11. Wonder Women “no man’s land” scene

12. Trench foot

13. The Homefront

14. Rationing
So many goods were in short supply that governments turned to rationing.
Rationing is the distribution of scarce resources, goods, and services.
So many goods were in short supply that governments turned to rationing.

15. Rationing
Adherence to rationing was considered a highly patriotic duty.

16. Women during the war
Thousands of women replaced men in the factories, offices, and shops.
Built tanks, munitions, plowed fields, paved streets, ran hospitals.