PPT-Western Front Trenches

LO identify key features of a typical trench identify some of the conditions in the trenches AND explain what daily life in the trenches was like Starter YesNo Who am I What is trench warfare. L/O – To identify the main changes in warfare brought about by the First World War. The Race to the Sea. The Battle of the Marne was a . turning point. . The Schlieffen Plan had failed. Germany was now caught up in a war on . Mud. Mud affected every aspect of a soldier’s life:. what they ate, what they drank, how they. breathed, what they wore, how they. walked, their health.. Source 1. Mud... enveloped men of the front line. As a farm labourer at 'Akenfield', Davie was man used to hardship, but he was in no doubt about the importance of mud. 'Did you kill men, Davie?' 'I got several.' 'What was the worst, Davie?' 'Why, the wet, of course.' Where rain met bare earth or shelled earth, it spawned feet of mud. Boyd Orr reckoned that forty Englishmen a night were drowned in it. Nicholson on the Somme saw a man stuck fast for sixty-five hours, with two men pulling on ropes finally freeing him though with his clothing sucked down by the mud. . Lesson Aim: . To have applied knowledge of why WWI was a trench war to answering exam questions. . TASK: . In your book match the word with the correct letter. . A. Firebay. Company HQ dugout. Reserve trench. The region to the west of Germany where the Germans were fighting against the French. British and Canadian forces (Belgium, France, etc.). Horrors on the Western Front. Rows of deep trenches were dug . 1914-1918.. LIFE AND DEATH . IN THE TRENCHES.. “Living and fighting in the trenches was a terrible and terrifying experience for all the soldiers involved” . What . evidence is there. for and against this statement?. DIRECTIONS. :. Keep/put chairs on the desks (barbed wire).. Line up the front of your trench with backpacks and jackets. .. Take a pen or pencil with you into the trench and . sit on the carpet . (not in “no man’s land”).. BY: . SANJAE, ANGELA, LAURA, AND ELIZABETH. TRENCH CONSTRUCTION. The first trenches in World War 1 were created by the Germans after the Battle of the Marne in September 1914. . The trenches provided . The landscape was . unrecognisable . with blasted and broken trees, shell craters filled with stagnant water and miles and miles of mud in which you might easily drown. . Lines . of razor-sharp barbed wire were set up in No . Following the outbreak of . World War I. in 1914, the . German Army. opened the . Western Front. by first invading . Luxembourg. and . Belgium. , then gaining military control of important industrial regions in . 1914 – 1918. Sonja, Bella and Robbe. Opening up the . Western . front in 1914. Germany . established the . Western . front in . 1914. This . move was a part of Germany's . Schlieffen. . Plan. Reason for Britain to join the war. A “War of . . Attrition. ”. THE INITIAL GERMAN ADVANCE. Germany’s advance halted at the Battle of the Marne. . “Race to the Sea”. Four Years of Stalemate on the western Front.. A Multi-Front War. Lesson objectives. "They left for war as boys never to return as men.". · . All will. – have a basic understanding of the main problems of life in the trenches and considered the usefulness of a number of primary sources. . When Canadian soldiers left for Europe and the war in the fall of 1914, most were expecting adventure, heroism, and excitement. What they encountered upon their arrival was much different, and far from glamorous. Soldiers were living in trenches- long, narrow ditches, dug by hand, that they would live in day and night. The trenches would often fill with water from the rai, and muddy puddles would fill the bottoms of the trenches, causing trench foot when soldiers would stand in the water for long periods of time. It was certainly a difficult way of life while fighting day in and day out.. I. Stalemate on the Western Front. Failures of the . Schlieffen. Plan. Russia mobilized more quickly than expected. British joined French forces. Germany defeated in 1. st. Battle of the Marne. Both sides dug trenches to protect troops.