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Good Afternoon!!. NVC Intro to Trench Warfare Soldier Poetry Essential Question : How did the attitudes of soldiers fighting in WWI change during the course of the war? Homework : WWI Project DUE April 2/3. Trench Warfare. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Good Afternoon!!
1. NVC
2. Intro to Trench Warfare
3. Soldier Poetry
Essential Question: How did the attitudes of soldiers fighting in WWI change during the course of the war? Homework: WWI Project DUE April 2/3
Trench Warfare• Schlieffen Plan: German
plan to avoid fighting a Two-Front War
• Plan Fails– Stalemate ensues– Late 1914, the first
trenches are dug– Trench Warfare: soldiers
fight each other from fortified tunnels dug in the ground
Cannot even see your enemy
Surrounded by the dead
Poison Gas
“No Man’s Land”: The space between trenches
Land Mines Barbed Wire
Mud!
Trench Foot
Soldier Poetry
• “How do you fight?
• “In Flanders Fields”– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6BlOkpdkg8
&feature=related• “Dulce et Decorum est”– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy47aUhLsxc