A New Kind of War

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A New Kind of War

• Trench Warfare
• Poison Gas

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TRENCH WARFARE

• a form of combat in which soldiers dug
• trenches, or deep ditches, to seek
• protection from enemy fire to defend
• their positions

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NO MANS LAND
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OVER THE TOP
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LIFE IN THE TRENCHES

• lived very close to other soldiers
• not much room

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Trench Facts Each battalion had its own supply
of rum that it distributed to its soldiers. Each
division of 20,000 men received 300 gallons. -
Every soldier carried iron rations -- emergency
food that consisted of a can of bully bee,
biscuits and a tin of tea and sugar. - A single
pair of rats could produced up to 880 offspring
in a year. - A total of 3,894 men in the British
Army were convicted of self-inflicted wounds. A
firing-squad offense -- none were executed, but
all served prison terms. - The British Army
treated 20,000 soldiers for trench foot during
the winter of 1914-15. - One-third of all
casualties on the Western Front may have been
killed or wounded in a trench. - A lit candle
was fairly effective in removing lice, but the
skill of burning the lice without setting
yourself on fire was difficult to learn. 
-Soldiers in the trenches often depended on
impure water collected from shell-holes or other
cavities, causing dysentery.Source Spartacus
Educational
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LIFE IN THE TRENCHES

• trenches could be miserable sometimes
• rainstorms
• trench foot
• sanitation
• lice rats

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Problems in the Trenches
UNSANITARY
RATS
Trench FOOT
ALWAYS WET and MUDDY
Dystentary
LICE
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POISON GAS

• a new weapon used in the war
• different types
• blind
• choke
• burn
• limited value
• wind
• gas masks

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What were the effects of gas?
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Trench Warfare

• What kind of tactic is this?
• How is it effective?
• How did they create such a strategy?
• What is meant by Over the Top?
• What is No Mans Land?