trench warfare

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+-	around 25,000 miles of trenches along Western Front
 
+-	three lines: front trench is attack trench, second trench is support trench, and third trench is reserves
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+-	German trenches had permanent element – kitchens, furniture, electricity, water
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+-	French/British kept offensive plan so did not make their trenches fancy
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+-	Included artillery, machine guns, barbed wire, exploding bullets, liquid fire, and poison gas
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+Mass killing 
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+-	Battle of Verdun (Spring/Summer, 1916)
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+-	700,000 on both sides
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+-	Battle of the Somme (Summer/Fall, 1916)
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+-	600,000 French/British casualties
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+-	500,000 German casualties
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+-	57,240 casualties – 20,000 dead – the first day
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+-	A few miles of movement only
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+-	Trench warfare inspires new genre of literature – poetry, All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) and Storm of Steel (Jünger)