Trench Warfare In The Trenches

The Germans were pretty smart for their development of the trench systems they made the trenches have a progressively greater depth and strength in order to ensure that the enemy could not achieve a breakthrough at any particular point.
The Allies’ increased use of the tank in 1918 marked the beginning of the end of trench warfare, however, since the tank was invulnerable to the machine gun and rifle fire that were the trenches’ ultimate defense.
Trench warfare was horrible due to the fact a lot of people die just to gain a small amount of territory.
The amount of lives that were lost were sad, like during the First Battle of the Somme the British suffered 60,000 casualties the first day alone. Final casualties totaled about 1.2 million, yet