trench+(warfare)

trench (warfare) by Trevor

· Trenches were used in medieval, ancient times, the Civil War and in the Russo Japanese war. · Trenches weren’t important until WWI. · Artilleries were not affective at all, the war became immobile. They had to stay in one place to fight. · Trench motors, hand grenades, poison gas, and tanks were used in trench warfare. · The French and Germans used defense lines to help protect them. The Maginot Line and the Siegfried Line were used in this war. · Many people were killed by snipers in trenches. · Rats infested trenches; they were as big as cats. · Death was constant in trench warfare. · Trenches smelled horrible of dead bodies and dead animals. · All battles were direct contact so no one was safe, there was no hiding. · Snipers that weren’t in the trenches had very easy targets by looking down into the trenches. · The worst thing was it was pretty much every man for himself; you could go save an injured soldier without putting your own life in danger. · If you were shot in the stomach it was a long and painful death. · Most of the soldiers were smart and stayed in a prone or crouching position, if you didn’t you were not going to live. · The soldiers that were on the front lines stayed there for days without sleep to keep the rest of the people in the trench safe. · Some of the weapons used in trench warfare were clubs, hand guns, grenades, poison gas, iron and steel bars, bayonets, regular knives and gas masks. [|**http://www.radessays.com/viewpaper/82354/WWI_Trench_Warfare.html**] · The Germans were very experienced in trench warfare so they had a slight edge on their opponents. · Eventually 32 nations were in the First World War, the war lasted 4 years. · There was a strip called the Western Front, it stretched across France and into Belgium and Germany. · The Eastern Front had fighting to, Italy, the Black Sea and Africa.
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