WWI Context
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- Created on: 06-05-14 14:18
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- WWI Context
- Causes
- Trench Warfare
- After the battle of Ypres and Marne both sides dug trenches
- Life in the Trenches
- Machine Guns
- Weapons
- WWI Context
- Causes
- Trench Warfare
- After the battle of Ypres and Marne both sides dug trenches
- Life in the Trenches
- WWI Context
- Weapons
- Weapons
- First battle of the Marne - if Germans had won the war would have endeed
- Battles
- 1916 - Battle of the Somme - Severe loss of life for the Brittish
- Battles
- They could flatten the barbed wire and cross over trenches
- Tanks
- Tanks
- Were used from 1916 with many problems (getting stuck in the mud)
- Tanks
- Tanks
- Often turned to alcohol as a coping mechanism
- Mental effects
- Mental effects
- Water from shell holes
- Food
- Hard Biscuits, jam
- Bung
- Barkers
- Food
- Food
- Hard Biscuits, jam
- Bung
- Barkers
- Lice and rats were a huge problem
- Wet conditions led to trench foot
- This was a major weapon from the start British took a little time to realise how important they were
- Machine Guns
- Machine Guns
- Heavy Artillery
- Both sides had huge heavy guns
- Gas
- This was used from 1915
- Battles
- 1916 - Battle of the Somme - Severe loss of life for the Brittish
- 1916- The Battle of Verdun - over 700,000 casualties,
- Militarism - more willing to fight
- Alliances - willing to join in due to friendships
- Imperialism - Building empires
- Nationalism - wanted to prove they were superior
- Tactics
- each side defended their own trenches and tried to take the others from the other side
- each side defended their own trenches and tried to take the others from the other side
- They had to cross 'no mans land'
- Tactics
- Tactics
- the enemy would have to bombard the trench with guns and artillery fire
- Sometimes they would mine under the enemy trenches and plant explosives
- War poetry/literature
- Graphic
- Personal
- Emotive
- First Hand
- Not censored
- War poetry/literature
- Graphic
- Personal
- Emotive
- First Hand
- War poetry/literature
- Raw
- Mental effects
- Many men suffered from 'shell shock' due to the conditions and the constant sound of artillery
- In low lying land - often wet and muddy
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