The Allied and Central Powers

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The Allied and Central Powers
Summer 1914
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STALEMATE!!
Allied and Central Powers Positions . . .
Winter 1914 To Spring 1917
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TRENCHES!!!
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Cozy Homes
(Life in the Trenches)
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Who wants to go home when you can stay and fight
in comfort?
(and an example of early idealism about the war)
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REALITY . . .
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Through rain, sleet or snow!!!
And Mud Mud Mud
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Trench Foot
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The Stench
in the
Trench!!!
(Kind of like Schmitt taking his shoes off!)
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PREPARING FOR COMBAT . . .
Using mirrors to check the enemys position
Waiting for the Whistle . . .
Fix Bayonets!!
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ARTILLERY!!!
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The Whistle Sounds and
Over the Top!!!
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keep you eye on these two
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Not everybody makes it
to...
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No Man's Land

• barren wasteland between trench lines
• varied in size, anywhere from 10 yards to 500
  yards (average of 150 yards)
• virtually anyone in the open would be cut down
  by artillery or machine gun fire
• terrain characterized by craters
• some trenches actually shared by both sides,
  separated only be sandbags

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NO MANS LAND
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The Moment of Truth
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The Wire

• always within a grenade toss
• each night, men had to crawl into No Mans Land
  to add to the wire entanglements
• no less than 50 feet deep often more than 100
  feet
• last obstacle faced by attackers before
  reaching enemy trenches

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The difficulty of breaking through the enemys
wire defenses
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Caught in the wire
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The New Killing Machines
Heavy Artillery
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GAS!!!
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500 Rounds Per Minute
Machine Guns
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In the air . . .
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TANKS
A Means to Break the Stalemate
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U-Boats
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All Lead to Mass Destruction
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The Cost
Nearly 9,000,000 soldiers killed
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Wounded Over 20,000,000
Missing Over 7,000,000
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Allied Casualties 52
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Central Power Casualties 67
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FATIGUE
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Shell Shock!!!
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The Scars
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