MODERN WORLD HISTORY - DBQ PACKET SECTION 3.3: TRENCH WARFARE NAME: PERIOD: DUE DATE: ESK3 SCORE: ACCOUNTABILITY SCORE: Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, handgrenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. -Erich Maria Remarque DBQ CHECKLIST Annotations Answer includes: Thesis (1 Sentence) Evidence (1 Sentence per document) Analysis (1-2 Sentences) HONORS OPTION Analysis (2-3 Sentences) Synthesis DBQ If you are missing any of the above items for each DBQ, it is incomplete READ YOUR FEEDBACK FIRST! GRADING LEGEND = Response does Not Answer the question directly and/or is Not Accurate = No connection = Awkward = Unclear/confusing = Remove = Take another look there s a grammatical or spelling error here! = Incomplete answer = Where are your annotations? = Where is your Thesis Statement? = Where is your Evidence? = Where is your Analysis?
SECTION 3.3 DBQ 1 The moment we are about to retreat three faces rise up from the ground in front of us. Under one of the helmets a dark pointed beard and two eyes that are fastened on me. I raise my hand, but I cannot throw into those strange eyes; for one mad moment the whole slaughter whirls like a circus round me... then the head rises up... and my hand-grenade flies through the air and into him. We make for the rear, pull wire cradles into the trench and leave bombs behind us with the strings pulled, which ensures us a fiery retreat. The machine-guns are already firing from the next position. We have become wild beasts. We do not fight, we defend ourselves against annihilation... No longer do we lie helpless,... we can destroy and kill to save ourselves... to be revenged. Source: Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front WHAT DOES REMARQUE SAY THAT THE WAR DID TO THE MEN WHO FOUGHT IN THE TRENCHES?
SECTION 3.3 DBQ 2 British sergeant major Ernest Shepard remembers the first day of the Battle of the Somme in his diary. A lovely day, intensely hot. Lots of casualties in my trench. The enemy are enfilading us with heavy shell, dropping straight on us. A complete trench mortar battery of men killed by one shell, scores dead and badly wounded in trench Every move we make brings intense fire, as trenches so badly battered the enemy can see all our movements. Lots of wounded [from the front] several were hit again and killed in trench. We put as many wounded as possible in best spots in trench and I sent a lot down, but I had so many of my own men killed and wounded that after a time I could not do this [L]iterally we were blown from place to place. Men very badly shaken. As far as possible we cleared trenches of debris and dead. These we piled in heaps, enemy shells pitching on them made matters worse. WHAT CONSTANT DANGER EXISTED FOR SOLDIERS IN TRENCHES DURING WORLD WAR I?
SECTION 3.3 DBQ 3 The next thing I knew [I] was being carried on a stretcher past our officers and some distance from the guns. I heard someone ask, Who s that? Bombardier Pressey, sir. Bloody hell. I was put into an ambulance and taken to the base, where we were packed on the stretchers side by side on the floor of a marquee [a large tent with open sides], with about twelve inches between. I suppose I resembled a kind of fish with my mouth open gasping for air. It seemed as if my lungs were gradually shutting up and my heart pounded away in my ears like the beat of a drum. On looking at the chap [guy] next to me I felt sick, for green stuff was oozing from the side of his mouth. To get air into my lungs was real agony and the less I got the less the pain. I dozed off for short periods but seemed to wake in a sort of panic. To ease the pain in my chest I may subconsciously have stopped breathing, until the pounding of my heart woke me up. I was always surprised when I found myself awake, for I felt sure that I would die in my sleep. So little was known about treatment for phosgene, the type I was supposed to have had Now and then orderlies would carry out a stretcher. Source: William Pressey in Michael Moynihan, ed., People at War 1914-1918 WHAT WAS THE CAUSE OF THIS SOLDIER S INJURY?
SECTION 3.3 DBQ 4 HONORS OPTION Using evidence from the documents you ve analyzed in this packet and lecture answer the following question: HOW WOULD SOLDIERS EXPERIENCES DURING THE WAR AFFECT THEIR ABILITY TO FUNCTION IN SOCIETY AFTER THE WAR? EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER USING EVIDENCE.