War in the Trenches
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War in the Trenches
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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
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
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
Italian Front • Italy had an alliance
with Central Powers
• Switched sides in hopes of gaining back land
• Fighting in mountains vs. Austria-Hungary
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!