What was some characteristics of trench warfare?

Answer 1

Trench Warfare in WWIBarbed wire, deep shelter, lots of guns, recklessness/courage, and patience. Trench war fare was in a word, pointless. Soldiers would wait in disease-ridden, dark, dank, rat infested, mostly cramped trenches for days or weeks at a time, in the winter months, many froze to death. When the signal was given, it was your squad's time to go over the top. Soldiers were forced to mount a charge across barren trenches while dodging shrapnel, pits, and dead bodies, sheilding themselves from waves of mustard gas, and machinegun, artillery, and rifle fire from the enemy trench. Those few who were fortunate(or unfortunate enough) to make it to the enemy trench alive had to deal with the barbed wire strung across the front of it, and the enemy soldiers who attacked the oncomers with whatever they could find. Guns knives, pots, pans, shovels, axes, pieces of broken glass or metal. After the charge, surviving soldiers would retreat back to their trenches. One tactic was to confuse the enemy with nerve gas in a barbed wire area, and if they didnt die from thath they would invariably get trapped in the wire. Then once they were trapped, soldiers would set up their machine gun or use any other weapon and kill the trapped and bewildered soldiers. Trench warfare was described as stripping man down to its most primal nature. It was survival of the fittest, and the fittest showed no mercy, save the armstice on Christmas Day at certain parts of one of the fronts.

Answer 2

There were many. Both sides would have machine gunners ready at anytime with snipers also looking for any body parts that were exposed over the tops of the trenches. The main tactic is known as "going over the top". Ladders would be placed so that soldiers could climb out of their trench and storm no mans land. However, most were cut down artillery, mortars, machine gunners, and snipers.

There were many more, including tunneling under no man's land, and setting explosives under the enemy's trench. Tanks also saw their first combat.

Answer 3

Stalemate.

The major characteristic of trench warfare was the bloody fighting that would take place across a perilous "no man's land" to gain only a few yards of territory. Trench foot, sleeplessness and terror were also hallmarks of trench warfare.

Answer 4

Trench warfare consisted of digging long ditches for protection. The trench would protect the soldiers from artillery and small arms fire but the living conditions were not good.

Answer 5

the trenches were swarmed with rats. fresh food was nonexsistent. and sleep was nearly impossible..