World War One and Trench Warfare
World War One and the main method of attack which was trench warfare.
In 1882 the Triple Alliance was formed, the Triple Alliance was a group of countries, these countries were Germany, Austria Hungary and Italy, they all signed a document stating that if any of them got into a war the rest of the countries would help them in the war. In response with this Great Britain, France and Russia made a similar agreement also stating that they would help each other if a war started, they call themselves the Triple Entente.
World War 1 started because the Arch Duke of Austria-Hungary, Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Bosnian called Gavrilo Princip in 1914. Austria-Hungary orders Serbia to take the blame for the murder, Serbia refuses and allies with Russia, Germany and Russia declare war on each other, since Germany is part of the Triple Alliance and Russia is part of the Triple Entente, the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente went to war.
What Was Different About This War?
Before World War 1 the British had not fought anyone that had similar weapons, for example the British invaded Africa and all the people of Africa had to defend themselves were spears and swords they had no real military and they had no guns.
Being a soldier in the British army in these types of wars meant that all you to do when you saw the enemy was shoot some bullets and they would be dead and you didn’t have any real chance of dying unless you fought them in close combat.
However when World War 1 arrived the soldiers had to fight enemies who had the same or even better military than them. And this time there was a real threat of loosing the war and dying.
In World War 1 trenches were built to keep out the opposing army. Trenches were a network of tunnels dug in to the ground and were used as barriers to keep the opposing army out
Trenches had been used long before World War 1 they had been used in the American Civil Wars and in the Russo-Japanese War.
Here is an advantage and disadvantage of using trenches:
Since the trenches stretched over quite a large amount of land, if a soldier does get in to the enemies trenches there would be tunnels leading everywhere even to dead ends so the soldier would not no where to go and would get lost. The disadvantage of this is that the armies own soldier could get lost in his own trench.
Life In The Trenches
Life was unpleasant for British troops in World War 1, some of the reasons were because they were likely to catch a disease in the trenches, some of the diseases were common diseases such as a cold or flu but some diseases were deadly such as Trench Foot or Trench Fever.
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