HOW WAS THE BATTLE OF SOMME A FALIURE?

Question 1

British Casualties on 1st day?

Answer 1

57,000 (📈AND 💀 EVER RECORDED IN A SINGLE DAY BY THE BRITISH ARMY

Question 2

How did the Somme begin to go so wrong?

Answer 2

German observers👁‍🗨 in ✈️🎈 saw newly constructed roads/ railway lines= watched movement of guns/soldiers

Question 3

HOW DID GERMAN TROOPS PREPARE?

Answer 3

Moved back from FLT to bunkers =Artillery failed to kill expected number of Germans

Question 4

How many shells were duds?

Answer 4

1/3 (inexperienced ammunition workers)

Question 5

Why was the TYPE of artillery used ineffective?

Answer 5

Shrapnel rounds used more than explosive shells = Germany’s concrete bunkers not destroyed

Question 6

What happened when the shelling stopped?

Answer 6

GS left the bunkers, got their machine guns
BS faced w/ INTENSE ARTILLARY BOMBARDMENT 😮😪.
&resistance in German trenches🤪💅🏾

Question 7

How did the artillery bombardment actually make the situation worse on the Somme?

Answer 7

Shelling lifted the barbed wire and dropped it down just made it more tangled= German machine gunners shot through the gaps in the barbed wire

Question 8

Name 1 other reason why the Somme failed?

Answer 8

BS told to walk

Question 9

Name 2nd other reason why the Somme failed?

Answer 9

Narrow British communication trenches (reinforcements slow to attack, Germans have more time to prepare for the waves of attacks)

Question 10

What new weapon was used in the Somme?

Answer 10

TANKS 29/50 broke down before reaching battle field = against advise of experts

Question 11

How did Britain and France fail?

Answer 11

20 miles of land/ 18th NOV 1916- 5 miles secured

Question 12

British casualties IN TOTAL

Answer 12

420,000

Question 13

French casualties IN TOTAL

Answer 13

200,000

Question 14

What are shrapnel rounds?

Answer 14

Shells that throw out small pieces of metal

Question 15

German casualties in total?

Answer 15

500,000