1.World War I evolved into a trench war due to the new weapons such as machine guns and artelleries used in warfare. The size of machine guns and artillery made it difficult to manuver which created difficulties when attcking the other army.Horse calvary was not used since the age of Napoleon with open battlefields.The open battlefields caused thousands of deaths.The borders and positions of each army needed to be protected.The enemy needed to be attcked, thus trenches were created to accomplish these tasks.
2. Trench warfare caused a wide range of sicknesses for soldiers.Death occured frequently to those serving on the front line.The enemy would shoot and the shells would burst and claim he lives of those relaxing or laying in the trenches.Due to the closeness of the two armies trenches,soldiers could be killed on their first day by a sniper's bullet.Trenches were often unsanitary,housing black and brown rats. These rats could produce several hundred rats in a year by the couple. The rats would carry infection and diseases, thus spreading to the soldiers.The rats would also consume the corpses of the dead soldiers (the eyes and liver consumed more).Soldiers would get Trench Fever from lice. Lice could reproduce in the seams of the soldiers' clothing, even though the uniforms were constanlty being washed.Movement for soldiers was restricted until the night time because of the snipers on enemy territory watching them.Soldiers also had to endure the horrible odor in the trenches. The odor was a mixture of dead bodies, poison gas, cigarettes,food, and chloride of lime to keep out diseaes.
Civilians were also affected because of the shoratges of raw materials.The distribution of goods and hours of business were restricted anda rationed.Families could be easily malnourished because the needs of the soldiers were tended to first before anyone.The health of school-age children also declined. Anaemia and tuberculosis were common. The transport system stopped which made food and coal hard to get.Workers became upset because living conditions and working hours were increasing but their paychecks were not.
Government was also affected by the trench wars.Germany, Russsia and Austria-Hungary were defeated.Europe was made into smalller states.
2. Trench warfare caused a wide range of sicknesses for soldiers.Death occured frequently to those serving on the front line.The enemy would shoot and the shells would burst and claim he lives of those relaxing or laying in the trenches.Due to the closeness of the two armies trenches,soldiers could be killed on their first day by a sniper's bullet.Trenches were often unsanitary,housing black and brown rats. These rats could produce several hundred rats in a year by the couple. The rats would carry infection and diseases, thus spreading to the soldiers.The rats would also consume the corpses of the dead soldiers (the eyes and liver consumed more).Soldiers would get Trench Fever from lice. Lice could reproduce in the seams of the soldiers' clothing, even though the uniforms were constanlty being washed.Movement for soldiers was restricted until the night time because of the snipers on enemy territory watching them.Soldiers also had to endure the horrible odor in the trenches. The odor was a mixture of dead bodies, poison gas, cigarettes,food, and chloride of lime to keep out diseaes.
Civilians were also affected because of the shoratges of raw materials.The distribution of goods and hours of business were restricted anda rationed.Families could be easily malnourished because the needs of the soldiers were tended to first before anyone.The health of school-age children also declined. Anaemia and tuberculosis were common. The transport system stopped which made food and coal hard to get.Workers became upset because living conditions and working hours were increasing but their paychecks were not.
Government was also affected by the trench wars.Germany, Russsia and Austria-Hungary were defeated.Europe was made into smalller states.