Diseases and Death
The number of dead people after the war was over.
What is 10 million people?
He was the President of the United States during World War I and proposed the Fourteen Points for peace.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
This 1917 battle, infamous for its deep mud and water-filled trenches, symbolized the brutal conditions of trench warfare and resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties.
What is the Battle of Passchendaele
This type of food was most commonly eaten in the trenches.
What is canned.
Trenches were often reinforced with this type of sharp barrier to slow down enemy soldiers during attacks.
What is barbed wire?
What caused more casualties? A. Disease B. Weapons
What is disease.
He was the British commander who led forces during the Battles of the Somme and Passchendaele.
Who is General Douglas Haig?
This is the most famous battle with trench warfare.
What is the Battle of the Somme.
British soldiers often ate this canned, salty meat that they joked tasted like “a piece of rubber.”
What is bully beef?
These small animals became a major problem, feeding on soldiers’ food and sometimes bodies.
What are rats?
This caused trench foot, lice spread, and trench fever, and also spread lice.
What is wet trenches?
This American general commanded the American Expeditionary Forces when U.S. troops entered the trenches in 1917.
Who is John J. Pershing?
This sport was played at the Christmas Truce of 1914.
What is football (soccer)?
Soldiers used these to heat food and keep warm, but smoke from them often gave away trench locations.
What are small trench fires or braziers?
Trenches were built in a zig-zag or angled pattern to prevent this from spreading if a shell landed inside.
What is an explosion traveling down the trench?
What disease was the most prominent in trench Warfare
What is Trench Fever?
This military doctor helped identify trench fever and discovered it was spread by lice.
Who is Gaston Lhopital?
This battle was the first trench battle that used poison gas.
What is the second battle of Ypres.
Soldiers stood up on the fire step and waited for enemy attacks during this dawn and dusk ritual.
What is “stand-to”?
This deadly area between opposing trenches was filled with shells and barbed wire.
What is No Man’s Land?
This animal spread trench fever.
What is body lice?
These two German leaders oversaw Germany’s trench strategies and 1918 offensives on the Western Front.
Who are Hindenburg and Ludendorff?
This was the first major battle using trench warfare
The first battle of Ypres
Soldiers dug these small side tunnels to escape artillery blasts and to sleep more safely.
What are dugouts?
If all Western Front trenches were laid out, how many miles would they span
What is over 25,000 miles