Battle of Somme
Who?
Germans
British, French, South Africans, and Australians
What?
Battle of Somme
World War I battle
Lots of casualties
Trench warfare
Both sides dug in and
lobbed shells
at each other
British lost 20,000 on first day
750,000 total losses
first industrial war with machine guns, tanks, and poison gas
Where?
Somme region of northern Europe
area between trenches called "No Man's Land"
Bloody battles fought at Devil's Wood and Mametz Wood
When?
fought between July and November of 1916
Why?
British and French wanted to distract Germans who were fighting at Verdun