The Strategies' Room for the First World War - World War I Museum Feb 2010. 2. Battle of the Somme One of the 3000 Allied cannons that were intended to greatly weaken the German defences. The Battle of the Somme was the main Allied offensive on the Western Front in 1916. In the first day alone 58,000 British troops were wounded or killed. The artillery bombardment began on June 24th and the battle lasted until it was called off on November 18th. 3. Spotlight Canada Though no trenches were perfect, this diagram shows the ideal trench. Why would anyone want to live in a trench? The majority of battles during World War One were fought by trench warfare.
Although the trenches helped with the defence, it did not make the attacks any easier. 5. This visual shows the large number of Germans who were meant to encircle Paris and how they traveled through Belgium. How could Germany have planned to win the war in just a few months and why didn't it work? The Scheiffen Plan was Germany's plan for the war. 6. What were the French planning to do if invaded by Germany? 8. 10. 12. WW1 Battlefields of the Western Front.
The long line of battlefields that makes up the Western Front runs through a wide variety of landscapes in south-west Belgium, north-eastern and eastern France. The battle lines wind their way across the countryside from the sand dunes and flat, reclaimed sea level land on the Belgian coast in the north, to the mountain peaks at 1,400 metres (4,500 feet) above sea level in the Vosges mountain range at its southern end.
From a geographical point of view the range of landscapes on which the Western Front battlefields were established include sand, clay, chalk and rock, rivers, canals, valleys and cliffs, ridges and mountains, plains, forests and swamps. When visiting the battlefields it can be seen how the geological make-up of the ground and the peculiarities of the landscape inevitably played a major part in influencing strategy, tactics, development of new weaponry and fighting techniques in the battles of the Western Front. Map of the 1914-1918 Western Front Battlefields Antwerp.
Australian War Memorial » To Flanders Fields, 1917. Titles from the 1910s on ASO. 66 titles - sorted alphabetically or by year prev 1 2 next My South Polar Expedition spoken word – 1910 Sir Ernest Shackleton tells how the loss of a pony affected his attempt to reach the South Pole in 1908. Opening of the Prahran-Malvern Tramway documentary – 1910 This silent footage by Millard Johnson and William Gibson was made at a time when few people had seen moving pictures let alone a film camera.
At Footscray a Church is Pulled Down newsreel – 1911 This footage shows the preparations for demolition of a small church in Paisley Street, Footscray. Ballarat Beauty Competition newsreel – 1911 This Pathé newsreel captures the 36 entrants in a local beauty competition held in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens on 9 June 1911. Footscray 1911 historical – c1911 One of the earliest moving image recordings of Footscray, this footage was screened to locals a week later at the Federal Hall in Nicholson Street.
The Sydney Morning Herald documentary – 1911 St Kilda Esplanade c1912 historical – c1912.
Life in the trenches. The Western Front — 1914 - 1918. West Front SummaryLate during the summer of 1914, train stations all over Europe echoed with the sound of leather boots and the clattering of weapons as millions of enthusiastic young soldiers mobilized for the most glorious conflict since the Napoleonic Wars. In the eyes of many men, pride and honor glowed in competition with the excitement of a wonderful adventure and the knowledge of righting some perceived infringement on the interests of their respective nation. Within weeks however, the excitement and glory gave way to horror and anonymous death, brought on by dangerous new machines of war which took control of the old fields of honor and turned them into desolate moonscapes littered with corpses and wreckage.
This new great war, called World War One, began as a local disturbance in Southern Europe but eventually spread into a worldwide struggle which produced two of the greatest bloodlettings in history; the battles of the Somme and Verdun. Memoirs & Diaries. Many of the combatants of the First World War recorded the daily events of their experiences in the form of a diary. Some were subsequently published after the war and have become celebrated. Many more, however, remained tucked away in cupboard drawers for years, unpublished and unseen. With the advent of the world wide web, an opportunity arose for the descendants of many survivors to publish fragments of diary entries for the education and interest of others.
This section of the website brings together a collection of such pages. Also featured within this section are personal narratives written by survivors who relate a given aspect of the war, be it trench conditions, or their part in a specific attack or action, as well as the testimony of such participants as nurses and chaplains. One in five of the Australians and New Zealanders who left their country to fight in the war never returned; 80,000 in total. Battles - The Western Front. HSC Online. Home > Modern History > Core Study > World War I and its Aftermath 1914 - 1919: A Source-based Study > Military plans and World War I - Reasons for the Stalemate on the Western Front Lyn Gorman Charles Sturt University From this tutorial you will learn about the reasons for the stalemate on the Western Front. Outcomes describe the role of key features, issues, individuals, groups and events of selected twentieth century studies (H1.1) analyse and evaluate the role of key features, issues, individuals, groups and events of selected twentieth -century studies (H1.2) explain and evaluate differing perspectives and interpretations of the past (H3.4) communicate a knowledge and understanding of historical features and issues, using appropriate and well-structured oral and written forms (H4.2) Contents Introduction When war was declared in 1914, the initial military moves were dictated by military plans which had been drawn up by the European powers in the years before the war.
The Schlieffen Plan.