Chapter 10 section 1 b Fighting begins Focus

Chapter 10 section 1 b Fighting begins

Focus Question n Why did both sides embrace Trench Warfare as a strategy to win the war?

Von Schlieffen Plan n n German war plan Defeat France quickly Hold up Russian forces, until then Eliminate eastern threat Blockade Britain w/ U-Boats

Von Schlieffen Plan

Western Front n n n In 30 days, Germans 30 miles from Paris Allies began to dig trenches along the front Battle of the Marne n German advance stopped n Began to also dig trenches

Trench Warfare n n n Relies on defensive weapons Troops are dug in protective trenches Use machine guns & artillery Massive direct assaults on enemy positions -- Going over the Top “no man’s land” -- between the trenches Tens of thousands of casualties

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Deadly Technology n n Machine guns 600 rounds per minute / 800 yards

Deadly Technology n n n Artillery field guns Long range cannons / indirect fire Caused more casualties than all other weapons

Deadly Technology n n n Poison Gas Chlorine & Mustard Gas Blind, burn, or kill soldiers

Deadly Technology n n n Unterseeboot -- U-Boat Submarine, using torpedoes and deck guns to sink allied shipping Traveled in wolf-packs

Deadly Technology n n Armored vehicles -- tanks Designed to break the stalemate of trench warfare

Deadly Technology n n n Airplanes First used as reconnaissance Air-to-ground attack Air-to-air attack