WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -World War I was a war of trenches. After the early war of movement in the late summer of 1914, artillery and machine guns forced the armies on the Western Front to dig trenches to protect themselves. Fighting ground to a stalemate.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is trench warfare? Trench warfare is a type of combat in which the opposing sides attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground.

Detailed explanation-3: -Trench warfare is a type of warfare where two or more oppositions attack and defend from trenches that are dug in the ground. Warfare is armed conflict between enemies or armies. Trenches originated from fox holes. Previously fox holes were used as protection for soldiers during WWI.

Detailed explanation-4: -No Man’s Land: Trench Warfare During World War I, trench warfare was a defensive military tactic used extensively by both sides, allowing soldiers some protection from enemy fire but also hindering troops from readily advancing and thus prolonging the war.

Detailed explanation-5: -Trenches-long, deep ditches dug as protective defenses-are most often associated with World War I, and the results of trench warfare in that conflict were hellish indeed.