Trench

Even though the battle was fought more than 100 years ago, the trenches are still visible and some have been paved so that visitors can walk through them. In no way, though, does a stroll through the trenches dug into grassy fields even remotely convey the ghastly conditions in which the soldiers had to endure. […]

Kennedy says that most historians agree that American entry into World War I tipped the scales against Germany and that without the participation of the United States the Allies would have lost, “defined as having to make a compromise peace with the Germans largely on German terms.” Things weren’t going well for the Could the […]

World War I popularized the use of the machine gun—capable of bringing down row after row of soldiers from a distance on the battlefield. This weapon, along with barbed wire and mines, made movement across open land both difficult and dangerous. Thus trench warfare was born. How did new military technology influence the fighting in […]

While the war on the Western Front developed into trench warfare, the battle lines on the Eastern Front were much more fluid and trenches never truly developed. This was because the greater length of the front ensured that the density of soldiers in the line was lower so the line was easier to break. Did […]

Machine guns and rapid-firing artillery, when used in combination with trenches and barbed-wire emplacements, gave a decided advantage to the defense, since these weapons’ rapid and sustained firepower could decimate a frontal assault by either infantry or cavalry. What new technologies were used in trench warfare? Trench warfare The application of infantry rifles, rifled artillery […]

Disease and ‘shell shock’ were rampant in the trenches. With soldiers fighting in close proximity in the trenches, usually in unsanitary conditions, infectious diseases such as dysentery, cholera and typhoid fever were common and spread rapidly. What were the effects of trench warfare? Even during lulls in the fighting, death occurred almost daily in the […]

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The devastating firepower of modern weapons helped create the trench stalemate on the Western Front during the First World War. Armies were forced to adapt their tactics and pursue new technologies as a way of breaking the deadlock. What was the impact of trench warfare in ww1? During World War I, trench warfare was a […]

The Japanese used trenches on pacific islands, and the Germans dug trench lines several times. So did the Soviets and British. The only force that didn’t make extensive use of trenches were the Americans, who had foxholes, more tanks than their opponents, and trucks, and thus didn’t need them. Why were trenches not used in […]

“All of the bodies have now been recovered. We didn’t want to leave a man behind. We are looking at 125 soldiers and the vast majority of them are German. “To put it into context, an average of 10 bodies a year are usually found in the area of Ypres. Are WW1 bodies still being […]

The survivors. That can either be an occupying force or those of the losing side of the war. After WWII, German citizens cleaned up the debris, bodies, and destroyed buildings. The Allied military tended to remove military equipment, either to be thoroughly destroyed or, when deemed necessary, taken away for study. Who cleaned up the […]

Many died in combat, through accidents, or perished as prisoners of war. But the majority of loss of life can be attributed to famine and disease – horrific conditions meant fevers, parasites and infections were rife on the frontline and ripped through the troops in the trenches. What percentage of soldiers died in the trenches? […]

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The soldiers also did nighttime patrols in no man’s land, in order to spy on enemy nighttime operations and listen for enemy troop movements. Finally, nighttime was also when some soldiers were tasked with keeping watch, while others slept. Did soldiers fight at night? Usually due to the massive nature of the battles, they could […]

The helmets weren’t intended to stop a bullet. Glancing rounds it might shrug off, and a small caliber round- say, a 9mm pistol round- could struggle to deal with it, but in broad terms those helmets were about stopping fragmentation, shrapnel and whatever other random crap gets kicked up in a fire fight. Are ww2 […]

It was also the first conflict in world history to have more deaths caused from combat, rather than from disease spread during fighting. Trench warfare was also employed in World War II and in the Korean War to some degree, but it has not been used regularly during conflicts in the ensuing decades. Do ww2 […]