PPT-Trench Warfare

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. **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” . Chapter 29. 2. Changing Warfare. Changes in technologies, tactics, and weaponry. Communication achieved through telephone, Morse Code, radios, and carrier pigeons. Carrier pigeons placed in a gas protection box. We are doing class a little differently today. Please find your laptop and sit at a place where you can see the board.. Think about it. What are our some of our modern warfare weapons?. Essential Question. A New Kind of War. Knight’s Charge. Who was assassinated that “sparked” the “powder keg?”. Explain how the domino effect impacted WWI.. What was the revolutionary group called that carried out the above assassination?. 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. Trench Warfare: . type of fighting during WWI in which both sides dug trenches (channels) protected by mines and barbed wire. British trench, France, July 1916…. This was taken during the Battle of Somme. DO NOW. Pages 42-43. Learning . Target: I will understand how World War I was fought and consider the impacts of these . strategies . and techniques. . Success . criteria: I am able to describe trench warfare and explain the impact of the modern weaponry . 2. Changing Warfare. Changes in technologies, tactics, and weaponry. Communication achieved through telephone, Morse Code, radios, and carrier pigeons. Carrier pigeons placed in a gas protection box. 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.. Turn in:. . Nothing. Take out :. . Previous notes. Note-taking devices. T. oday’s Learning Objectives:. I can explain how technology and trench warfare impacted combatants as The Great European War began.. a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other.. A Continuous front. -. For a couple of months, both sides . attempted to outflank. the other but were unable to achieve . AP EURO Unit #6 – Early 20 th Century (The World Wars) Lesson #602 Fighting and impact of WWI Pressures led to war M ilitarization E mpire competing A lliances N ationalism Dan snow – 4m description of assassination: 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. . Germany starts the offensive. World War I officially began with the German army storming through Belgium, into France.. At the First . Battle of the Marne, . the German runs into French forces. A stalemate occurs.