Download - War on western front
The SIDES
Triple Entente
Russia
England
France
WESTERN FRONT Schlieffen PlanSchlieffen Plan
Germany’s plan for quick victory by invading France through neutral Belgium.
Win quickly against France then turn around and fight Russia on the Eastern front.
WESTERN FRONT
Resistance in Belgium slowed the German army enough for France to stop Germans at the Battle of the Battle of the MarneMarne
TRENCH WARFARE
Form of warfare in which soldiers fight from trenches dug into the Form of warfare in which soldiers fight from trenches dug into the battlefield– trade huge loss of human life for pitiful small land gainsbattlefield– trade huge loss of human life for pitiful small land gains
Basically, weaponry Basically, weaponry has now become so has now become so powerful that both powerful that both sides had to dig into sides had to dig into the ground like moles the ground like moles to stop being blown to to stop being blown to smithereens!smithereens!
Trench Foot Trench Rats Constant shell-fire
(shell shock) Dysentery stomach
pains/diarrhea) Lice (itch, carry
disease) trench fever: first
symptoms were shooting pains in the shins and was followed by a very high fever.
TRENCH WARFARE
One soldier wrote: "The rats were huge. They were so big they would eat a wounded man if he couldn't defend himself."
TRENCH WARFARE
Trench Foot: This was an infection of the Trench Foot: This was an infection of the feet caused by cold, wet and insanitary feet caused by cold, wet and insanitary conditions.conditions.
ROLE OF COLONIES The countries
fighting WWI needed human and natural resources from their overseas colonies