10th American History - Waverly
... German soldiers dug trenches, or deep ditches, to defend their positions and seek shelter from enemy fire. By late 1914, two massive systems of trenches stretched 400 miles across Western Europe, and the battle lines known as the Western Front extended from Switzerland to the North Sea. Trench warfa ...
... German soldiers dug trenches, or deep ditches, to defend their positions and seek shelter from enemy fire. By late 1914, two massive systems of trenches stretched 400 miles across Western Europe, and the battle lines known as the Western Front extended from Switzerland to the North Sea. Trench warfa ...
Modern American Fiction and World War I
... what was actually accomplished during this horrific war. Few soldiers, who had been raised on their grandfather’s idea of war, felt as if they had acted with bravery ...
... what was actually accomplished during this horrific war. Few soldiers, who had been raised on their grandfather’s idea of war, felt as if they had acted with bravery ...
world war i - The John Crosland School
... To do this they had to travel through neutral Belgium, which contributed to the British entering the war. The war in the East against the Russians went surprisingly well. The Germans defeated the Russians in decisive battles. ...
... To do this they had to travel through neutral Belgium, which contributed to the British entering the war. The war in the East against the Russians went surprisingly well. The Germans defeated the Russians in decisive battles. ...
Aim: Was WWII fought fairly
... on the standard military tactic of the infantry charge, which led to massive casualties. Many soldiers barely got out of their trench before they were cut down by machine gun fire. ...
... on the standard military tactic of the infantry charge, which led to massive casualties. Many soldiers barely got out of their trench before they were cut down by machine gun fire. ...
File
... a. Lachrymator- Much like today's tear gas and mace, this gas caused temporary blindness and greatly inflamed the nose and throat of the victim. A gas mask offered very good protection from this type of gas. ...
... a. Lachrymator- Much like today's tear gas and mace, this gas caused temporary blindness and greatly inflamed the nose and throat of the victim. A gas mask offered very good protection from this type of gas. ...
Life in the Trenches
... Typically, a battalion would be expected to serve a spell in the front line. This would be followed by a stint spent in support, and then in reserve lines. A period of rest would follow - generally short in duration - before the whole cycle of trench duty would start afresh. In reality the cycle was ...
... Typically, a battalion would be expected to serve a spell in the front line. This would be followed by a stint spent in support, and then in reserve lines. A period of rest would follow - generally short in duration - before the whole cycle of trench duty would start afresh. In reality the cycle was ...
New Weapons.WWI
... bombardments were mounted. British General Haig collected 1300 heavy guns and more then 2 millions shells for his 7-day bombardment of the German trenches before the Somme offensive was launched, and similar artillery gunfire took place at Verdun and later at Passchendaele. Surprisingly, all this sh ...
... bombardments were mounted. British General Haig collected 1300 heavy guns and more then 2 millions shells for his 7-day bombardment of the German trenches before the Somme offensive was launched, and similar artillery gunfire took place at Verdun and later at Passchendaele. Surprisingly, all this sh ...
World War I Interactive Worksheet
... 1. How many British soldiers suffered total or partial leg or arm amputations? ...
... 1. How many British soldiers suffered total or partial leg or arm amputations? ...
Gas attacks at Wulverghem
The Gas attacks at Wulverghem in the municipality of Heuvelland were two German cloud gas attacks during World War I on British troops near Ypres in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The first gas discharge took place on 30 April 1916 and was followed by another attack on 17 June.The gas attacks at Wulverghem were part of the sporadic fighting, which took place between battles in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. The British Second Army held the ground from Messines Ridge north to Steenstraat. British divisions opposite the German XXIII Reserve Corps, had received warnings of a gas attack in the ten days beforehand. From 21–23 April, British artillery-fire exploded several gas cylinders in the German lines around Spanbroekmolen, which released greenish-yellow clouds of gas. A gas alert was given on 25 April, when the wind began to blow from the north-east and routine work was suspended; on 29 April, two German soldiers deserted and warned that an attack was imminent. Just after midnight on 30 April, the German attack began and a gas cloud moved on the wind through no man's land, into the British defences and then south-west towards Bailleul.The gas used by the German troops at Wulverghem was a mixture of chlorine and phosgene, which had been used against British troops on 19 December 1915 in the First German phosgene attack on British troops at Wieltje, north-east of Ypres. This and earlier gas attacks, beginning at the Second Battle of Ypres (21 April – 25 May 1915), had given the British time to replace improvised gas masks, with effective mass-produced masks and other anti-gas equipment and to establish anti-gas procedures. Helmets impregnated with chemicals to neutralise chlorine had been issued in several variants, each more effective than the last. By April 1916, British troops had PH helmets and some specialist troops like machine-gunners, were equipped with box respirators.The first German gas attack at Wulverghem on 30 April, caused the defenders 562 gas casualties and 89 gas fatalities but German raiding parties intended to find and destroy mine entrances, were repulsed with small-arms and artillery fire. A second attempt by the Germans on 17 June, caused about the same number of gas casualties and the British easily repulsed German patrols.