Trench Warfare & WWI

Focus: How was WWI a total war?* How is Trench Warfare an

example of total war?

Trench System Emerges with Battle of the Marne, 1914

Trenches - Best way to limit death/casualites

British Trench, July 1916 - Battle of the Somme

• An aerial photograph of opposing trenches and no man’s land in Artois France, July 22nd, 1917.

• German trenches are at the right bottom and British Trenches are at the top left.

Movement within the trenches.

Additional Information

•Watch this video which can be found on the World War One page of our wiki.

•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IitKjI4NA_g– You can listen & take notes on clothing of WWI, weapons, the different parts of a trench, the benefits and challenges that men faced on a daily basis.