TERMS
A war based on wearing down the other side with constant attacks and heavy losses, such as WW1
What is the War of Attrition?
When were the ditches dug?
What is 1914-1916?
When were planes first seen on the battlefield?
What is 1914?
Why were trenches a permanent part of WW1?
What is crisis of technology?
Concrete protected positions for machine guns making it impossible for unprotected troops in open fields
What is machines gun nests?
What were the disadvantages of the trenches?
What is diseases and cold weather?
What were planes first used for?
What is to spot enemies positions?
How did the soldiers survive the deadly machine gun fire?
What is soldiers dug into the ground?
The use of planes to locate and identify enemy positions, movements and artillery from the air
What is spotting?
What were the trenches protected by?
What is 5ft barbed wire that is stretched multiple yards?
What were the planes used for during the war?
What is attack ground ground targets and their enemies communications?
Why was it hard to get defensive weapons?
What is heavy artillery were too advanced for soldiers on foot?
Rigid airships developed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in Germany around 1900
What is Zeppelins?
What was the trenches purpose?
What is defense strategy for sneaking and hiding from guns?
What started to be mounted on top of the planes?
What is machine guns?
What happened after the Race to the Sea?
What is both armies had trouble to fix their army and both lost to outflank each other?
The dangerous, disputed territory between opposing trench lines, often filled with barbed wire, mud, and corpses.
What is no mans land?
Both had each hundreds of miles of trenches
What is Germans and French?
Where were the planes mostly used during combat?
W.hat is the Great War?
Attempts by the Franco-British and German armies to envelop the northern flank of the opposing army
What is Race to the Sea?