(A) a stalemate
(B) more people were killed
(C) ** the war was sped up
(D) soldiers were exposed to horrible conditions
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Concept note-1: -In battle, soldiers had to charge out of the trenches and across no-man’s land into a hail of bullets and shrapnel and poison gas. They were easy targets and casualties were enormously high. By the end of 1914, after just five months of fighting, the number of dead and wounded exceeded four million men.
Concept note-2: -Which of the following was a result of the use of trench warfare during World War I? Soldiers experienced increasingly unsanitary conditions, including rat infestations.