War in the Trenches

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War in the Trenches

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War in the Trenches. Hindenburg Line. General Hindenburg, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and General Lundendorff review battle plans. Crucial stronghold Formidable barrier to Allied advances Operation Alberich. Generals Hindenburg and Lundendorff. British forces breeched the line in early - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Hindenburg Line

• Crucial stronghold

• Formidable barrier to Allied advances

• Operation Alberich

Generals Hindenburg and Lundendorff

General Hindenburg, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and General Lundendorff

review battle plans

• British forces breeched the line in early

October of 1918

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Key1 Communication Trench2 Machine Gun Nest3 Underground Bunker4 Traverse5 Wire Break6 Listening Post+ Trench Block

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Shell Shock• Symptoms• Shell-

shocked soldiers first viewed as cowards; many were executed

• Treatment improved once the condition was identified

Nurse and wounded French soldier

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Eastern Front

• Line of fighting on eastern side of Europe

• Germany and Austria-Hungary vs. Russia

• Attack and counter-attack for over 2 years

• 1917 Russian revolution-Bolsheviks took over, stopped fighting in WWI

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Scorched Earth

• Tactic implemented by the Russians, borrowed by the Germans

• Retreating armies would burn buildings, ravage crops, cut down trees, and force inhabitants to flee

• Goal was to leave nothing of value behind that opposing forces could use

Ruins of a French town after German troops retreated through it, 1918

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Italian Front • Italy had an alliance

with Central Powers

• Switched sides in hopes of gaining back land

• Fighting in mountains vs. Austria-Hungary

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Gallipoli• Need to send

supplies to Russia on the Eastern Front

• Water route through the Black Sea-through the Dardanelles

• Mission was a failure More to come!