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. **Take five minutes to write down two ideas/reactions you have about this quote**. What do you think it means?. What does it mean to be destroyed by the war? . World War 1: War in the Trenches . “All Quiet on the Western Front” . 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 . 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. Unit . 2: . World War . I. The . Deadlock on the Western . Front. The . Failure of the Plans. The . Schlieffen. Plan. Background. Created . by General von . Schlieffen. in 1905. Assumptions. war . would be on two fronts against France and Russia. 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 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 . 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”).. Stalemate and Attrition. The . Western. Front in . 1914. The . Western. Front . in 1918. Change over the course of the war. Conclusions?. What can you conclude about the effectiveness of trench warfare during WWI from the maps?. 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. 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.. 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. 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.