How Did World War 1 Change Trench Warfare
“It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches” (Peter Stuyvesant). Trench warfare was a tactic that got nowhere while fighting. Then they started using nuclear gases that killed a lot of people. Trench warfare was an interesting thing, he technology changed how well it worked, and he attitude of leaders changed trench warfare as well.
Trench warfare made the war one of the slowest in history. People got almost nowhere from it. Trench warfare is the idea where you dig a trench and many people go in them. Then they would jump up and shoot the other people. They would dig another trench ten feet ahead, and when the trench is done the people would try to go to it when they thought nobody was looking. Instead of making it they usually got shot when trying to move. The area where the people went to try to move from one trench to the other is called “no mans land”. It didn't work because the people …show more content…
The guns were automatic that made it really easy to kill the people when they tried to go from one trench to the other. Also the gases that they used were very fatal. The gas caused many of the soldiers to get incredibly sick and die, if the gas was exposed to their skin they would get many terrible sores. Also the tunnels they built from one trench to the other.
The attitudes of the leaders made the war the way it was. If there attitudes were different many less lives would be dead. The leaders of both sides were very stubborn on using trench warfare even though it was a terrible tactic. Also the German leaders decided to use gases to kill the soldiers, so the allies started to do it as well. The gases killed not only soldiers, it killed a lot of civilians as well. The attitudes of the leaders made way more people die than who had to.
Trench warfare was an interesting thing, he technology changed how well it worked, and he attitude of leaders changed trench warfare as well. The war was brutal and killed millions of
Trench warfare made the war one of the slowest in history. People got almost nowhere from it. Trench warfare is the idea where you dig a trench and many people go in them. Then they would jump up and shoot the other people. They would dig another trench ten feet ahead, and when the trench is done the people would try to go to it when they thought nobody was looking. Instead of making it they usually got shot when trying to move. The area where the people went to try to move from one trench to the other is called “no mans land”. It didn't work because the people …show more content…
The guns were automatic that made it really easy to kill the people when they tried to go from one trench to the other. Also the gases that they used were very fatal. The gas caused many of the soldiers to get incredibly sick and die, if the gas was exposed to their skin they would get many terrible sores. Also the tunnels they built from one trench to the other.
The attitudes of the leaders made the war the way it was. If there attitudes were different many less lives would be dead. The leaders of both sides were very stubborn on using trench warfare even though it was a terrible tactic. Also the German leaders decided to use gases to kill the soldiers, so the allies started to do it as well. The gases killed not only soldiers, it killed a lot of civilians as well. The attitudes of the leaders made way more people die than who had to.
Trench warfare was an interesting thing, he technology changed how well it worked, and he attitude of leaders changed trench warfare as well. The war was brutal and killed millions of