Trench Warfare

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Trench Warfare

Disasters and Diseases

http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/trenchlife.htm

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Sleeping where?

How to build them

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More ways to build from a French hand book.

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Soldiers fought from within the trenches

It was usually tight quarters

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Trenches were used by both the Allies and the Central Powers

An aerial photograph of the trenches

First line of defense

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In the trenches

Not all trenches were deep.

Many nations fought together

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Fighting

Sometimes an easy target

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Dangers of Trench life

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Trenchfoot

From having wet feet most of the time and nowhere to dry them out

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Dead bodies….

Left to rot in the trenches because of the machine gun fire that kept the soldiers in the trenches

An easy food source for rats and a place to breed disease

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Bring rats

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Soldiers of all nations hunted the rats– sometimes rations were short and meat was added to their diet

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Christmas truce

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Poison Gas

A new weapon, hard to combat. Different gas mask styles were created by different countries. None were 100% effective.

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Belgian Uniforms and masks

Australian Gas mask

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Japanese gas mask

U. S. gas mask

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Gas Training

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