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- 1 Which battle strategy in which soldiers fought from deep pits dug in the earth developed in reaction to the deployment of machine guns during the war?
- 2 Which German battle strategy that called for a quick defeat of France and the attacking of Russia in the East?
- 3 What weapon caused choking blindness and death?
- 4 What was the name of the German strategy for fighting a two front war against France and Russia?
- 5 What were trench Raiders?
- 6 Did trench warfare start in the Civil War?
Which battle strategy in which soldiers fought from deep pits dug in the earth developed in reaction to the deployment of machine guns during the war?
trench warfare, warfare in which opposing armed forces attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground.
Which German battle strategy that called for a quick defeat of France and the attacking of Russia in the East?
The Schlieffen Plan
The Schlieffen Plan (German: Schlieffen-Plan, pronounced [ʃliːfən plaːn]) was a name given after the First World War to German war plans, due to the influence of Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen and his thinking on an invasion of France and Belgium, which began on 4 August 1914.
What weapon caused choking blindness and death?
new weapon that caused choking, blindness, and death called mustard gas.
What was the area in between the trenches called during World War I?
“No Man’s Land” was a popular term during the First World War to describe the area between opposing armies and trench lines.
Where did Texans train for trench warfare?
The 370th Infantry Division was one of the only two African-American regiments trained for combat and the only one commanded by African-American officers. The division trained at Camp Logan in Houston beginning in October 1917 before arriving in France in April 1918.
What was the name of the German strategy for fighting a two front war against France and Russia?
Schlieffen Plan
Schlieffen Plan, battle plan first proposed in 1905 by Alfred, Graf (count) von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff, that was designed to allow Germany to wage a successful two-front war.
What were trench Raiders?
Trench raiding was a feature of trench warfare which developed during World War I. It was the practice of making small scale night-time surprise attacks on enemy positions.
Did trench warfare start in the Civil War?
Union and Confederate armies employed field works and extensive trench systems in the American Civil War (1861–1865) — most notably in the sieges of Vicksburg (1863) and Petersburg (1864–1865), the latter of which saw the first use by the Union Army of the rapid-fire Gatling gun, the important precursor to modern-day …