Modern Warfare
Fill in the Blank: They had a ______ strategy and were using ______ weapons.
What is 19th century?
What is 20th century?
When was the Battle of Marne?
What is September 6th through September 10th of 1914.
Where was the Battle of Marne?
Where is east of France between Belgium, Germany, and France?
What other problems did soldiers face in the trenches other than fighting?
What were diseases, vermin, water, and giant rats.
The result of the plan France used: failure or success.
What is a failure?
Why were so many people being killed at a faster rate?
What is 'because of the Industrial Revolution they had the tech to be mass producing many new, dangerous, weapons'?
What made the trenches dug in the Battle of Marne different?
What is that the first trenches dug in WWI were dug at the Battle of Marne?
Why were the trenches zigzagged?
What is 'to prevent enemy from being able to kill as many if they got into the trenches'?
What did swampy water in the trenches cause for soldiers?
What is the swampy water in the trenches caused diseases such as trench foot, when the soldiers got diseases in their limbs they would have to get them amputated.
The name of the plan that the French adopted, and the year during which it was used.
What is Plan XVII, and what is 1914?
What were the new weapons used in WWI? Give at least three.
What were rifles, machine guns, tanks, and flamethrowers?
Who was Commander in Chief during the Battle of Marne?
Who is Joseph Joffre?
What was the name of the river that they were near to?
What is Aisne River?
What happened when the whistle was blown in the front line for the French?
What is 'the front line would have to go up from the trenches when the whistle was blown and once they got up they would be shot down immediately by the opposite side before even seeing the enemy'?
The enemies of the French, and the plan that those enemies used.
Who was Germany, and what is the Schlieffen plan.
What did the industrial revolution bring to the war?
What is 'the Industrial Revolution brought new weapons and new modes of transportation for the soldiers'?
What nickname did the Battle of Marne get and why did it get that nickname?
What is 'the Race to the Sea' because both sides dug trenches all the way to the sea trying to get ahead of each other?
What were weather conditions like?
What is that it was originally hot, but then it was rainy and wet, and cold.
What did they do at the front line (rather than fighting): list three things.
What were:
Rest some during the day and little at night
Write letters to loved ones
Play card games?
The people that directed the French's plan.
Who was the French General Staff and Joseph Joffre?
This is what happened to the Germans that resulted in the Allies winning the battle.
What is that the Germans overextended themselves in the beginning of the battle?