| Term | Definition |
|---|
| What is a "two front war?" | A war in which one country has fronts on two of its borders. |
| What is "trench warfare?" | A system of warfare in which long dirt ditches would be dug for the soldiers to hide in. To attack the other side, the soldiers would have to run across vast spaces of land to deadly results. |
| What is a stalemate? | A dead lock in which no side is strong enough to defeat the other. |
| What was No Man's Land? | The space between the barbed-wire lines of both sides' trenches. |
| What did it mean to go over the top? | To go over the top of a trench, to leave the trench to charge an enemy. |
| What did people learn from the battle of Verdun? | The battle of Verdun was a 10 month battle that left both the Germans and the French with huge losses, and no decisive victory. This battle illustrated the uselessness of trench warfare. |
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