WW1 Trench Warfare

World War 1, sometimes called the Great War, started July 28, 1914 and ended with the Armistice Treaty on November 11, 1918. For more on the Great War, visit the related link provided below.

When they went back to base they had the telegraph so it was heard on their

Shell shock was a term used to describe the lingering physical and psychological effects of trauma suffered in World War I by returning soldiers. Many symptoms of it look like what is currently known as PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

The largest American action to take place during WW1 was also one of the bloodiest to be seen during the war. The Hundred Day Offensive ended with over one million casualties on both sides.

WW1 tanks were slow sluggish metallic beasts, feared greatly by both sides. They had major disadvantage, the armor was riveted like ships but endangered the crew because it flew back at the crew like shrapnel. The Inside of a tank during a heated battled would be like a oven because of the engine that was installed with the crew. The guns were mounted on the sides since original design was based on battleships and parts came from ships too. The turret placement limited the kill range and who it could attack. They were clumsy, extremely unreliable, and really slow, but easily killed the moral of most enemy troops.

During WW1, it was typical to use the artillery to destroy the enemy's fortifications and trenches. During WW2, the field artillery was more precise and could directly support an infantry unit. When the infantry came up against armor or a fortified enemy position, such as a machine gun bunker, they could call in precise coordinates and the artillery could be directed to destroy that target. Large artillery was used to fire at long ranges at targets behind the front lines and to destroy the enemy's artillery positions.

Depends on your idea of small. The Western Front stretched from the coast of the North sea in Belgium to the Swiss frontier with France.

The Front formed in late 1914 - Early 1915 after the initial German advance into Belgium and France was stopped by the French, British and Belgian armies. Due to the numbers of men and amount of equipment available to these four armies it became possible to physically defend with trenches and wire the whole length of the front, in a way that wasn't as possible on other fronts where the areas were larger or the armies smaller.

Once the two sides had "dug in" the available technologies and weapons made it extremely hard to attack. Machine guns, preregistered long range artillery, wire, trenches and the terrain itself - churned up by shellfire and repeated battles over the same stretches of ground - all made attacks bloody and desperately hard to complete.

The dead lock wasn't broken, except locally, until specialist equipment was invented - Tanks, Gas, Sub-machineguns - and new tactics - combined arms, infiltration, creeping barrages - allowed the German offensive in early 1918, coming very close to breaking the lines - and the Allied push back - ending in the "Hundred Days" where the allies finally broke into Germany.

There were firing of bullets and shells going off so it would be very noisy and scary.

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World war 2 started on the year 1939 and ended in 1945. However, the war between Japan and China began in 1937 but wasn't part of the WW2 time line as it only involved the 2 countries and not the rest of the world yet.

During World War 1, women first moved into the civilian jobs abandoned by men, such as shop clerks and factory workers. Women did most of the jobs in the Post Office in Washington D.C.

The war effort itself involved women mainly as nurses and other medical workers.

After the war women were not about to return to the farms. Without their labor available, Mr. Henry Ford made a fortune selling his tractors mechanizing farms.

The women who had been liberated by their jobs during the war became the flappers of the roaring twenties.

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The Battle of Verdun, which occurred in 1916 and lasted almost a year, was fought between the French and Germans. It was one of the most important battles of World War I. The outcome of the battle was that the French won, but at epic costs to both sides. Experts believe nearly one million people died altogether, making it one of the most deadly battles in history.

I would say almost certainly none. Britain declared war on Germany because Germany invaded Belgium. The Treaty of London, in the 1830s, had been signed by Britain, France, Russia and Prussia, and Germany was the successor state to Prussia, and Germany was ruled in 1914 by the Prussian Dynasty which had signed the Treaty. This Treaty, made when Belgium was a new nation, guaranteed the perpetual neutrality of Belgium, situated as Belgium is on the traditional invasion route in Europe since Roman times. By 1914 an entire generation of Germany Army staff officers had been planning an invasion through Belgium to get at France, in the event of war with France, because since France was now allied with Russia, war with France would also mean war with Russia for Germany, the dreaded two front war, in both east and west. So it would be necessary to defeat France quickly, and the Treaty was thus very inconvenient in these changed circumstances. When reminded by the British of their obligations under this Treaty in 1914, when Britain demanded that Germany cease its invasion of Belgium and withdraw, the German Foreign Minister denounced the Treaty as a "scrap of paper". The Declaration of War followed shortly. But Britain was not a formal ally of any nation. The farthest they had gone in that direction was some commercial agreements, and to hold informal talks between the staff of the British Army and the staff of the French Army to do some planning in the event war broke out with the ever more menacing Germany. This was an odd development, because Britain and France were ancient enemies, for centuries, while Britain and Germany had close ties. The current British Dynasty (then and now) was originally from Hanover, Germany, and when they came to Britain around 1720, they still reigned over portions of Germany. The Kaiser of Germany and the British King were first cousins, both grandsons of Queen Victoria. The result of the informal staff talks between the British and French staffs was that Britain agreed to send an "expeditionary force" to France in the event of war with Germany. This expeditionary force was to be of six divisions, a tiny number of men in the terms of the war just beginning, but most of what the Kaiser called England's "contemptible little army". England did have only a small army, alone among the nations of Europe not having compulsory, mandatory military service for its young men, with the Royal Navy for centuries being the crucial force for the national survival of Britain. The British would continue to rely on volunteers for a year and a half of WWI. So it took a few weeks for the BEF (British Expeditionary Force) to get ready to go, get on ships and cross the English Channel to France, and march toward the front, where the 70 divisions of the German invaders were bearing down on Paris. And it was the middle of the month of August before their first combat, and the first loss of life.

Women had no rights. They couldn’t vote, own land, have a bank account, go to college and couldn’t live alone. They had to have a male relative support them and to handle business affairs for them.

lice and rats

The British Mark III .303 Caliber Short-Magazine Lee-Enfield (SMLE), used from World War One, World War Two, through 1956, and beyond in some nations is an extremely popular bolt-action rifle.

It's popularity, in addition to whatever condition the rifle is in, dictates the price. Generally, they can start as low as US $300 for one in bad condition, to well over US $1,000. The original stamped markings will also help to set the price. The ones actually produced at RSAF-Enfield near London usually are favored. Supply and demand. You know the deal.

It was written in 1917, and was published with his collection (counter-attack and other poems) in 1918.

the area between the trenches was know as no man's land

There is no answer to that question as there were thousands of soldiers in WW1 but don't know how many in trenches. Plus it depends if you ment British soldiers or soldiers as a generally.

Germany lost its colonies in Africa and Asia

The living conditions were really unpleasant. In the summer the heat would be extreme all day and night, and in winter the days were extremely cold that some soldiers that were on duty froze at their poles. The trenches were filled with stagnant water andinadequate sanitation, being immersed in flies, lice, mosquitoes and rats, and taking into account the rotting, empty food tins and a lot of dead bodies piled across the area between the trenches called no man's land- it was not surprising that disease was widespread.

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the conditions were extremely dis-comferting. It was surprising how they actually survived the trenches, let alone the fireing Germans, Russians and Austrian-hungarians. Many wrote to their loved ones, letting them know about how they wish they were back at home. Although most of the time, any letters sent wuld not arrive at it's destination until weeks or even months later.

Diseases were very easily caught in the trenches. The main one was Trench foot. It was very painful and would be so bad, the only way you could treat it was to let it heal naturally. The war was that frightening that some soldiers tried their very best to get trench foot because they knew that they would be taken from the trenches and sent to the hospitals further back away from the trenches. In the hospitals you lived in better, almost clean, conditions where you recieved care and comfert.

ww1 tanks were very slow and the tracks on British tanks would usually break if the were driven on the road too long. the tanks also had no exhaust pipe so the crew were exposed to harmful fumes.

even though ww1 tanks were designed to be heavily armoured a direct hit from a cannon would destroy them. And because of the heavy armour the tanks could sink into the mud and become immobilised

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Rations form part of a high energy meal (ideal for a soldier in the field). Many can also be eaten hot or cold.

Also different parts of the rations will do different things to your body. Some cause constipation whilst other parts will act as a laxative. This is particualrly useful as it can minimise unwanted/badly timed toilet breaks.

Ration packs are also easily cooked. There is no messing about with fresh/raw ingredients. Many ration packs are pre cooked and just need reheating (often by boiling in the bag)

Food was in short supply and the army couldn't afford large amounts of food pluss ration packs don't go off where as fruit veg etc would

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