Trench Warfare

Trench Warfare — page 7 — sources estimate there were as many as 15 000 soldiers gassed with 5 000 killed SECOND PLACE but the French kept no records of the Throughout World War I the United Kingdom numbers Other sources of casualties and France often found themselves struggling to compiled from British ambulance reports catch up with German technologically and medical stations claim there were The Germans had been the first to develop chlorine gas The British followed suit closer to 7 000 casualties with 350 of only after encountering the deadly agent the men eventually dying as a result of at Ypres The Germans were the first to dig a line of chlorine gas exposure defensive trenches forcing the British and Whether the total number of casualties French to develop their own trenches in a less favorable location was 15 000 or 7 000 the damage took Only after they came across a dead place in approximately ten minutes The German pilot did the British think to develop a lightweight oxygen mask similar events at Ypres showed combatants on to the Germans both sides that chemical weapons could work quickly and effectively even against soldiers sheltering in trenches When the French troops were hit with the gas they panicked and broke ranks opening up the Allied line for a stretch of no less than three miles 5 km Wearing gas masks the German troops left their own trenches and advanced 200 yards 180 m into Allied territory 10

Trench Warfare — page 8 — OGO Germans were prepared and protected with gas masks at the time of the Ypres chlorine gas attack The German plan to use chlorine gas to break through the Allied trench line worked but only to a point German troops fearing the gas advanced slowly and cautiously instead of seizing this opportunity to take the war out of the trenches and back into the open countryside where they could maneuver and win As dusk fell the German infantrymen sheltered in place They had made the first advance in months but needed the light of dawn and reinforcements from headquarters to stay out of the

Trench Warfare — page 9 — Left to right Black Hand members Trifko Grabez Nedeljko Cabrinovic and Gavrilo Princip in May 1914

Trench Warfare — page 10 — CHAPTE TEMPORARY TRENCHES TURNED LONG TERM World War I started with Serbia a small country with nationalistic dreams In 1835 Serbia had become independent from the Ottoman Empire the modern country of Turkey Soon Serbian leaders started talking about creating a country that included the majority of Serbian peoples as well as the lands they had lived on for generations To create this country Serbia would need to take over the neighboring country of Bosnia Herzegovina which had a large Serbian population The Serbian plan was put into jeopardy when Austria Hungary annexed Bosnia Herzegovina on October 6 1908 Austria Hungary had controlled Bosnia Herzegovina since 1878 when it took

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