Controlled Assessment Task Part (A) The First World War is associated strongly with Trench Warfare. How useful and reliable are these sources in explaining what conditions in the trenches were like? The public’s imagination of the Great War has been closely associated with Trench Warfare. Within the beginning period of the war August-September 1914 both armies expected a rapid war of movement, however the advances upon firing technology resulted in the complex trench systems being developed. The traditional interpretation was that soldiers spent all of their time in horrific conditions which they constantly experienced and they feared the factor of being sent ‘Over the top’ and that trenches were full of rats, lice and disease.
You also felt their feeling of nervousness, and the anxiety of the soldiers that were in the trenches. The soldiers told you what they saw, felt, and thought while the battle was going on, like how “shells disinter the bodies, then reinter them, chop them to pieces, play with them as a cat plays with a mouse”(357) and how they considered “Verdun was terrible… because man is fighting against material, with the sensation of striking out of empty air”
The soldiers live and fight in terrible conditions. This environment begins a cycle that causes the soldiers to despise the Iraqis. They are under constant fear of being attacked or blown up. They are living in a location, the desert, which they are not use to. “The dust, the fear, the high threat level, the isolation-all of that was the surge the soldiers knew .
No place was safe from artillery fire. With the Turkish army overlooking them, snipers were a constant danger. All men lived with the fear.” Howitzer shells are dropping about 30 yards from us digging great hole where they land, the fumes are suffocating, and the shrapnel is pouring all round us getting chaps everywhere. This is hell waiting here.” Bombs were being thrown from trench to trench constantly; this kept the ANZAC’s on their toes. “They take anything from one to five seconds to explode after landing and if you are close enough the best thing to do is to throw them back.” They were living with terror and horror of fighting off wave after wave of men.
World War 1 Through 1914-1918 Canadians fought in the trenches during World War 1. Weapons were really dangerous and killed many soldiers. Soldiers were worn down mentally and physically through out the war. The trenches they lived in were wet, cold and full of rats. Trench warfare was such a horrible and deadly thing many soldiers called it the worst time of their life.
Trench Warfare World War One was a horrific event, the number of known dead sits at about eight million people. The main method of combat during the first world war, also known as the Great World War, was trench warfare. Trenches were dug mainly to protect troops, but ended up being one of the major reasons so many men died. These men had to live through miserable times, daily life was filled with horror, and death. Death was a constant companion to those serving in the line, even when they weren't under attack, many would die of disease.
World War I brought many new ideas and different concepts that would either benefit or cause major consequences throughout the war. This was the time of the incredibly dreadful “Trench warfare”. Roden simply placed a picture in our mind by saying “We have had another terrible week of it in the trenches.” These trenches were used as a protective barrier between their enemy and No-Mans Land. Not only did the trenches provide protection, it also brought many other deadly factors such as diseases, rodents, and unfit living conditions. Lice was a very common problem that would terrorize every soldier that would spend time in the trenches.
They slept on the hard ground at night, and had to be ready for war at all times. Soldiers often starved because of their limitation on food. Soldiers became sick because of the rat investment environment they were in. Overall, the American troops made a great impact on World War one, the Second Battle of the
Violence was building up in Russia but the news of Russia going to war united the people, as evident “never during the twenty years of his reign had the emperor been so popular as that moment”. A great number of Russian’s were asking the questions ‘was Russia ready for war in 1914?’ as Russia took over Austrian land and suffered heavy defeats by the Germans. There was a standing army of 1 423 000 with the large amount of peple it was nicknamed the “the Russian steamroller”. There was 3 100 000 men in the reserves and 10 million in the militia. Within a year most of the soldiers were out of it.
Around 1914 Germany started to have a huge increase in military buildup. Considering that Germany started to build up military forced Britain to build up and this lead to another domino effect of European countries building up militaries. This put great amounts of pressure and influenced the standard set of a military. Since the build up of militaries this also put an egotistical mindset on some of the countries