neither side could decisively beat the other
Answer this question… Though little territory was ever gained, military leaders continued sending huge numbers of troops to attack enemy trenches.
Stalemate is a perfect description for the lack of movement on the Western Front. Both sides hit an impasse - both dug and created huge networks of trenches and spent years trying to gain small amounts of ground. Neither side was able to gain much ground in the war. They would send troops to capture the other side's trenches and then have to abandon them almost immediatly when a counter offensive was launched.
During WWI, there were long periods where neither side gained any ground. While this was happening, the soldiers spent their time in the trenches with not much to do.
The technological innovations led to the trench stalemate on the western front in various ways. Each army developed entrenchments which they intended to use in the war and this is what propagated the Trench Warfare.
The trenches did produce a stalemate because defense is easy but offense is difficult and costly.
Trenches were designed to offer maximum defensive cover. It is this attribute caused the stalemate of the war on the Western Front.
They were constructed by the men, they had their shovels and they would just keep on digging and digging and they wouldnt stop. and it led to trench foot and it also prolonged the war which is also called stalemate.
neither side could decisively beat the other
there were trenches in ww1 because obviously the soldiers needed somewhere undercover otherwise they would all be shot on the first day. but the trenches cotributed to the stalemate, so they weren't that affective in winning the war.
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Answer this question… Though little territory was ever gained, military leaders continued sending huge numbers of troops to attack enemy trenches.
The Germans and Allied troops reached a stalemate where neither side could advance. The only place they could go without loosing any ground was down, so soldiers started to dig trenches.
I assume the question is about the trenches used in World War I? Both sides of the conflict reached a stalemate and dug protective trenches. The number of soldiers killed and maimed (on both sides) was tremendous and proved the futility and waste of warfare, as frontal attacks moved the front back and forth.
Breaking a stalemate in warfare was difficult because the technology that made this type of war impossible had yet to be invented. Eventually, the U.S. and Britain developed things like planes and tanks that made fighting war in the trenches suicidal.
Because there is something called a Stalemate. Both sides cannot advance so they dug trenches and stayed there.
machine guns were used for rapidly clearing trenches. one of the most famous is the Tommy gun used by the Americans in ww2. mounted, or placed, machine guns were used in defense of trenches to mow down attacking enemy troops quickly in the no mans land between the trenches. the machine gun was used most in this way and is a major factor in the stalemate of trench warfare.