PPT-Hardships in the Trenches

1 Trenches flooded often Through the winter weariness and water were our chief enemiesOne walked in the trenches in thighhigh boots with water above the knee and one remembers the icy stream welling up inside the boot when you punctured it on concealed barbed wire. 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 . 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. By: Alexis Angelakis. Construction of trenches. Building a trench . took about six . hours for 450 men to . build 250 . meters of . that trench. . After . this, . barbed wire, board walks, and sand . Warefare. Trench . Warefare. Germany had a plan to win the Great War.. Von Schlieffen Plan. Trench Warfare. – type of fighting during World War I in which both sides dug trenches protected by mines and barbed wire. By Erich Maria Remarque. All Quiet on the Western Front. The novel is fictional, but it is based upon Remarque’s personal experiences during the war.. It was first published in 1929. More than one million copies were sold, and it was translated into twenty-three languages.. 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 . Airplanes. Wright brothers. 1903 in Kitty Hawk, NC they flew the first heavier than air plane. WWI was the first war to use airplanes. There would be air raids on cities like London for the very first time . 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.. December . 23rd 1915. Still at sea and all going on splendidly; everybody happy, but of course, food very scarce.. Bombegy. , our Indian cook, was very worried owing to the shortage of rations and we all so hungry, almost threatening him that we should cut him up for stew as a last resource. As usual, the "Sanitary Men" are called for duty, and we started 5 a.m. disinfecting the ship and horse lines. It was hard work, but we did it with a smile, a noted thing for "Sanitary Men".. 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. . Death. Death was a constant companion to those serving in the line. . Inexperienced soldiers were cautioned against their natural inclination to peer over the parapet of the trench into No Man’s Land.. La gamme de thé MORPHEE vise toute générations recherchant le sommeil paisible tant désiré et non procuré par tout types de médicaments. Essentiellement composé de feuille de morphine, ce thé vous assurera d’un rétablissement digne d’un voyage sur . What was . the Western Front?. The Western Front. . The two main fronts:. . On your coloured and labeled map of the alliances in your workbook, mark the Western front and the Eastern front. . Schlieffen Plan. Moran. SWBAT:. . analyze different dangers of living in the trenches during WWI by answering questions based on notes, pictures, video clips, and readings from the textbook.. Trenches. Trenches were deep and narrow areas of dug out ground, often stretching for miles that troops used to fight in and defend from the .