Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Life in WW1
- Tactics
- Artillery
- Trench Warfare
- Tunneling
- Charge into no man's land
- War on two Fronts ( the Schlieffen Plan)
- Sides
- The triple entente
- Britain
- Supported Belgium
- Russia
- Supported Serbia
- France
- The triple-alliance
- Italy
- Germany
- Austria-Hungary
- The Somme
- Lions led by donkeys
- This term is used to describe how brave young men would
risk their lives and fight the enemy, while their leaders sat
at base camp in safety
- The soldiers (mostly privates) were lions, the leaders were Donkeys
- General Haig : Was he a good man?
- Casualties
- 420,000 British
- 195,000 French
- 650,000 German
- Objectives
- Try and claim small bits of land gradually.
- Began 1st July, 07:30
- The trenches
- Dirty and damp. All sorts of weather could be expected
- Cramped
- Lice
- Rats
- Front line trenches faced
heavy artillery. Communication
trench was safer