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World War 1 History: Adapting Weapons to Trench Warfare81

World War 1 History: Adapting Weapons to Trench Warfare

During World War 1 (1914-1918), the Western Front in France and Belgium became a vast network of trench systems. As the soldiers tried to adapt, they discovered that the weapons they had been issued were sometimes not the best suited to this new and hellish environment. Many times adaptations were made to obsolete weapons of types ranging from Medieval times to the Napoleonic wars.

4 comments    weapons world war i world war 1
STEAM POWER - The First Decade of the 20th Century78

STEAM POWER - The First Decade of the 20th Century

Steam power was THE power of the late 19th Century and early 20th Century. Other forms of power took off in the period examined here. Australia became a federation.

2 comments    new york australia usa
Trenches WW1 World War 1 Trench Warfare91

Trenches WW1 World War 1 Trench Warfare

Living in the trenches of world war one meant that you were never alone, rats, lice and many other creatures were everywhere

885 comments    education france soldiers
World War 1 A Letter From The Trenches WW184

World War 1 A Letter From The Trenches WW1

Trench warfare world war one A letter from a soldier telling his family of his life in the trenches.

49 comments    children history france
World War 2: The German Blitzkrieg92

World War 2: The German Blitzkrieg

Learn about the German Blitzkrieg strategy in World War 2; how it worked, why it was successful, and why it ultimately failed.

7 comments    military germany russia
World war 1 A Day in the Trenches ww189

World war 1 A Day in the Trenches ww1

World war 1 a day in the trenches, a look into the daily routine of a soldiers life in the trenches of world war 1

331 comments    education death sleep
World War 1 life in the trenches ww175

World War 1 life in the trenches ww1

A day in the life of a soldier serving in the trenches of World War One

144 comments    life education religion
Australia's Involvement in World War I73

Australia's Involvement in World War I

World War 1 What does a document study of this soldier reveal about Australia’s involvement in the First World War? Australia’s involvement in World War I (WWI) was significant and paramount to the...

0 comments    history australia sydney
THE FIRST WORLD WAR76

THE FIRST WORLD WAR

THE FIRST WORLD WAR. “He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence, ‘all quiet on the western front. ...

5 comments    europe france italy
World One War: 'Chauchat', France's Machine Gun Failure73

World One War: 'Chauchat', France's Machine Gun Failure

French 'Chauchat' 1915 Machine Gun Soldiers of the American 308th and 166th Infantry Regiments liberate a French town in 1918. The soldier on the left is carrying a Chauchat slung over his shoulder Schematic drawing of French 'Chauchat' Illustration...

2 comments    france americans american
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