Stalemate on the Western Front at the end of 1914 brought the First World War to a standstill. The failure of the Schlieffen Plan resulted in Germany being badly damaged. It not only had to now fight a battle on two fronts and deploy 100,000 men to fight against Russia, it was caught on up in the ‘race to the sea.’ This involved Germany and both France and Britain charging towards west to the sea. On the way, they built in trenches to keep the land they had captured, while trying to outflank one another. It was due to the building of trenches, which mainly caused Stalemate.

The nature of trench warfare was soon acknowledged by the Allies; if either side were to win, they would have to resort to new, and advanced tactics and weaponry, uphold team morale, and ship in large numbers of troops, unfazed by the realities of war and its brutality. Allies also came to believe that innovative ideas would also be needed not just on the Western Front, but also more importantly, on the Home Front.

Trench Warfare was completely new idea to both soldiers and generals. They were first constructed as simple shelters but as time went on they turned to mor

Protection from gas attacks was soon introduced in the form of ‘Gas Masks.’ Soldiers were given one in case of an unsuspected attack, which were recognised by a look out seeing a green mist approaching their line. Even though the use of gas masks successfully reduced the mass killings of soldiers, the physiological affect still remained within the soldiers if ever a gas attack occurred at night when they were asleep, or whenever they were caught off guard.

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