How were trenches in World War 1 desgined?

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Answer 1

a big long hole dug into the ground which wasn't really designed as they would have been there for the whole war otherwise, but just sort of quickly dug. With firesteps (steps) to get out and dug outs to sleep in.

Answer 2

The trenches were uncomfortable, often full of water, and supposed to protect troops. However, the Germans started using mustard gas, and the trenches couldn't protect from that.

The area between the Allied trenches and the German trenches was called "No Man's Land." Numerous attacks across No Man's Land were mostly ineffective, because gains made by one side were reversed later by the other side.

An important fact to remember... the trenches were a part of warfare before the airplane became a major weapon. Airplanes were used mainly for observation, and usually only fought with other airplanes.

When airplanes became a major element during World War II, trenches became obsolete and were replaced by individual, small foxholes.

Answer 3

as the armies settled into the areas they would occupy for the next four years, trenches got fairly elaborate.........usually 8 feet or more deep so you could move down them without getting your head blown off,; short zig zag lengths so a shell landing in one section would only take out a short piece; bunkers dug in every so often so the hundreds of thousands of troops would have some cover to sleep in; five six or seven lines,maybe 50 yards apart, connected by short trenches called communication trenches,; the areas between the trenches filled with barbed wire coils, eight to ten feet high and twenty feet deep ;one set of Allied and one set of German that extended form the Swiss border to the English Channel, some 400 miles!

Answer 4

Trenches were lines of ditches built to protect soldiers from enemy fire and a base where soldiers could fire at the enemy. Behind was a string of support trenches. Overall there were four types of trenches frontline trenches, communication trenches, support trenches and reserve trenches. Inside the trenches were wooden boards that kept the soldiers off the mud also there was a fire step so soldiers could step up to fire without being open to the enemy x hope it helps

Answer 5

The answers by Irma and Yankee are both very good. Irma brought out a fact that is often ignored... Airplanes changed the way wars were fought... and now cruise missiles and terrorist attacks are changing tactics once again.

I would like to pick both of these answers as the best... but you'll have to choose.

Answer 6

Very quickly.