5. WESTERN FRONT
Schlieffen Plan
Germany’s plan for
quick victory by
invading France
through neutral
Belgium.
Win quickly against
France then turn
around and fight
Russia on the
Eastern front.
6. WESTERN FRONT
Resistance in
Belgium slowed
the German
army enough for
France to stop
Germans at the
Battle of the
Marne
7. WESTERN FRONT
The war turned
into a stalemate
as both sides
began to dig
trenches
8. TRENCH WARFARE
Basically, weaponry
has now become so
powerful that both
sides had to dig into
the ground like moles
to stop being blown to
smithereens!
Form of warfare in which soldiers fight from trenches dug into the
battlefield– trade huge loss of human life for pitiful small land gains
9. TRENCH WARFARE
Trench Foot
Trench Rats
Constant shell-fire
(shell shock)
Dysentery stomach
pains/diarrhea)
Lice (itch, carry
disease)
trench fever: first
One soldier wrote: "The rats were symptoms were shooting
huge. They were so big they would pains in the shins and
was followed by a very
eat a wounded man if he couldn't high fever.
defend himself."
