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Agenda. Simulation Set up! SET THE STAGE: FRIEND OR FOE? Trench Warfare Key Points, Why Important? Primary Source Activity: Trench Rats. 143 Trench Warfare. War use to be battle of men. Industrial Revolution turned war in to battle of machines.

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  1. Agenda • Simulation Set up! • SET THE STAGE: FRIEND OR FOE? • Trench Warfare • Key Points, Why Important? • Primary Source Activity: Trench Rats

  2. 143 Trench Warfare War use to be battle of men. Industrial Revolution turned war in to battle of machines.

  3. Posters always showed men ready and willing to fight. They never showed the boredom of the trenches or actual fighting taking place. Why do you think the government showed no fighting?

  4. 5 technologies… Change the nature of war.

  5. Airplane

  6. Tank

  7. Submarine

  8. Poison Gas

  9. Machine gun Most devastating.

  10. Nature of WWI Soldiers dug 100s of miles of muddy, rat infested trenches to hide from machine guns.

  11. The soldiers had very little decent food, and what food they had was often attacked by rats. These rats were the size of small rabbits and badgers because they had fed on the decomposing bodies of dead soldiers.

  12. Trench Foot

  13. No man’s land

  14. The British government wanted to encourage men to enlist for war. They said the war would be safe, hardly any fighting, a good lark and over by Christmas. They used advertising posters to encourage this idea! A picture of soldiers going ‘Over the Top’

  15. The reality of ‘going over the top’ was very different!

  16. How the uniform and equipment changed after just three weeks in the trenches…

  17. No smiling and relaxed faces… No clean uniforms… Their equipment is scattered everywhere… Boredom and sleep are obvious…

  18. Mass Devastation

  19. Battle of Somme 1,100,000 soldiers dead No one gaining ground.

  20. Freezing Winters

  21. Read Trench Warfare Key Points Why Important?

  22. Primary Source Activity Partner up Read and Analyze Questions

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