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Mind Map on The Trenches, created by maddieisproductive on 05/11/2013.
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The Trenches
1 Trench
life
1.1 Food
1.1.1 There was
rationing in the
trenches
1.1.2 You would eat
mainly tinned
meat and fruit
1.1.3 Soldiers drank
water and a
daily rum ration
1.1.4 Maconochie was a
meat and vegetable
stew in a tin
1.2 Troops would spend their
time in reserve trenches or
support trenches when not
on the front line
1.2.1 It would work in a cycle
and you would alternate
which trench you were
in after some time
1.2.1.1 You would
spend more time
in some trenches
than others
1.2.1.1.1 Spending only
eight days on
the front line
1.3 Routine
1.4 Trench foot
1.4.1 Caused by
standing in wet
boots all day
1.4.2 Similar to
frostbite
1.5 Lice
1.5.1 Many soldiers had
lice in their clothes
and hair
1.6 Trenches were filled
with rats and were
muddy in winter
2 German
trenches
2.1 Superior to British trenches
2.1.1 They spent more
time building
them
2.1.2 They were
deeper and had
better dugouts
2.1.3 The British didn't
think the war would
be to long so spent
less time
2.1.4 More
comfortable
3 No mans land
3.1 The distance
between the allies'
trenches and the
enemy trenches
3.2 The distance
between enemy
trenches could be
just 30 yards
4 How they were
designed
4.1 The trenches
zigzagged so if hit by
bomb less would be
destroyed
4.2 Dugouts were
areas to hide
under and sleep
in underground
4.3 There were
lines of
trenches
4.3.1 Front line
trenches
nearest to no
mans land
4.3.2 Communication
trenches going up
to different trench
line to carry info
4.3.3 Support
trenches to
back up
front line
4.3.4 Reserve
trenches with
reserve menu,
food and ammo
4.4 The trenches ran
across Europe from
the North Sea to
Switzerland
5 Weapons
5.1 Machine guns
5.2 Grenades
5.3 Trench mortar
5.3.1 Shot shells at
enemy trenches
5.3.2 Also used
to destroy
barbed wire
5.4 Gas
5.4.1 Poisonous
gases were used
to kill soldiers
5.5 Riffles were carried by the infantry
5.6 Flamethrowers