Life in the Trenches Ms. Moran SWBAT: analyze different dangers of living in the trenches during WWI by answering questions based on notes, pictures, video clips, and readings from the textbook.

Trenches Trenches were deep and narrow areas of dug out ground, often stretching for miles that troops used to fight in and defend from the enemy

Mini-cities

Area of land between opposing trenches Area of land between opposing trenches Many men died within first days of war; if they went into no man’s land, snipers killed them. Many men died within first days of war; if they went into no man’s land, snipers killed them.

GROSS! Rats infested trenches. Would eat human remains (grotesquely disfiguring them by eating their eyes and liver) they could grow to the size of a cat. Men, would attempt to rid the trenches of them by various methods but it was futile. spreading infection and contaminating food.

More Gross! Lice and Nits (bugs) breeding in the seams of filthy clothing and causing men to itch unceasingly. Lice caused Trench Fever, a particularly painful disease that began suddenly with severe pain followed by high fever.

Trench Foot A fungal infection of the feet caused by cold, wet and unsanitary trench conditions. It could result in amputation.

Trench Mouth