1. Trench Warfare and Weapons of World War I James Olson

2. Trench Warfare

3. ► Form a fighting in lines ► Trenches are dug out ► Machine guns- weapons of choice ► Sandbags were used

4. The Trench ► 12 feet deep ► Zigzagging ► Around Western Europe ► Miles of them

5. Trenches ► Disadvantages ► Insects ► Rodents ► Flooding ► Trench foot ► Trapped gas ► Advantages ► Easy to defend ► No man’s land ► Protection from Grenades

6. No Man’s Land A barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell crates and filled with barb wire

7. Defending the Trench ► Used Sandbags ► Barb wire- stop foot invasion ► Dirt as a barrier ► Deeper= Better

8. Trench is Home ► Not in the open field ► Gave Protection

9. Trench Weapons ► Machine guns ► Gas ► Tanks ► Trench knife ► Grenades

10. Trench Men ► Wore helmets ► Gas masks ► Carried machine guns

11. What Country’s Helmet?

12. Tanks ► Top speed of 4 miles per hour

13. Airplanes

14. Airplanes Roles ► First war with airplanes deployed in a large scale ► Bombed with airplanes ► Machine guns in airplanes

15. Germany Battleship

16. Game Time! ► List benefits of a trench ► List disadvantages of a trench ► List parts of a trench

17. Sources ► http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/tren chlife.htm http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/tren chlife.htm http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/tren chlife.htm ► http://www.slideshare.net/whitetom/trench- warfare-in-wwi http://www.slideshare.net/whitetom/trench- warfare-in-wwi http://www.slideshare.net/whitetom/trench- warfare-in-wwi ► http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW trench.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW trench.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWW trench.htm ► http://jimmythejock.hubpages.com/hub/Wo rld_War_1_Trench_Warfare http://jimmythejock.hubpages.com/hub/Wo rld_War_1_Trench_Warfare http://jimmythejock.hubpages.com/hub/Wo rld_War_1_Trench_Warfare ► History Book