How Did Each Side Try To Break The Stalemate?

Question 1

What was 1916?

Answer 1

They year or attrition (Verdun and the Somme)

Question 2

What happened in February 1916?

Answer 2

Germans began a battle to capture French forts surrounding Verdun.

Question 3

What falkenhayn come up with? (German commander)

Answer 3

Strategy of attrition for Verdun

Question 4

How did Falkenhayn’s strategy fail?

Answer 4

Both sides suffered equal losses

Question 5

How long did Verdun last?

Answer 5

Six months

Question 6

What was the French army like after Verdun in July 1916?

Answer 6

Near breaking point

Question 7

How did field marshal Douglas haig receive the pressure for the French after Verdun?

Answer 7

Launched long planned offensive at the Somme

Question 8

What happened first at the offensive at the Somme?

Answer 8

Week long artillery bombardment of German trenches

Question 9

When British troops advanced how many lives were lost on day 1?

Answer 9

57,000

Question 10

By November 1916 (when the fighting stopped) how many lives were lost?

Answer 10

1.25 million

Question 11

What did douglas haig say?

Answer 11

‘The nation must be taught to bear losses’

Question 12

When did the battle of the Somme end and why?

Answer 12

18th November, haig called it off wth winter setting in

Question 13

What happened in 1917?

Answer 13

USA in, Russia out

Question 14

In July what happened?

Answer 14

The first battle of Ypres began

Question 15

Where did the British detonate huge mines?what was the impact?

Answer 15

Messines. destroyed German artillery and killed 10000 Germans

Question 16

How did the infantry advance after the detonation become bogged down?

Answer 16

Heavy rain especially around the ruined village of Passchendaele

Question 17

Passchendaele was the?

Answer 17

Third battle of Ypres

Question 18

Some success came at?

Answer 18

Cambrai in November. However British unable to hold the ground they captured

Question 19

Since when had the British been blockading German ports?

Answer 19

Since 1914

Question 20

By 1917 what were German civilians experiencing?

Answer 20

Severe shortages

Question 21

What was the German U-boat campaign similar to?

Answer 21

The British blockade

Question 22

What was the U-boat campaign?

Answer 22

Germans sank ships supplying Britain

Question 23

What was introduced in 1917?

Answer 23

A policy of unrestricted submarine warfare against all ships suspected were carrying goods to Britain

Question 24

What did u-boat campaign achieve?

Answer 24

Caused shortages on Britain but unintentionally brought USA to the war