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Innovations and Strategies of WWI Trench Warfare

Dive into the tactics and technologies used during WWI trench warfare. Watch how military innovations emerged in response to the deadly stalemate on the frontlines. Explore the impact of poison gas, aerial combat, and the infamous Red Baron.

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Innovations and Strategies of WWI Trench Warfare

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  1. Total War“Everyone’s a Target” WWI

  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p05E_ohaQGk

  3. Warning: next image is very graphic (shows trench foot)

  4. Responses to the Stalemate of Trench Warfare “If necessity is the mother of innovation, then war is its father.” – Time Magazine

  5. Warning: next image is fairly graphic (shows effects of poison gas)

  6. “The sky is about to become another battlefield no less important than the battlefields on land and sea....In order to conquer the air, it is necessary to deprive the enemy of all means of flying, by striking at him in the air, at his bases of operation, or at his production centers. We had better get accustomed to this idea, and prepare ourselves.” — Giulio Douhet (Italian staff officer), 1909

  7. The Red Baron • German fighter pilot • Top “ace” of WWI with 80 air combat victories • Shot down and killed on April 21, 1918

  8. Zeppelin

  9. Why was peace without defeat not an option? Why did the Allied Powers insist on “making the Germans pay”?

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