Question

This is an excerpt from a journal from a soldier fighting on the western front. The trenches are mud up to our ankles. In other places, the trenches are waist deep in water. We spend all our time digging and filling sandbags, running for supplies and stores, or building up the tops of the trench. There is no time to be weary or bored. What does this journal entry describe?
a. the difficulty of eating in a trench
b. the difficulty of bombing a trench
c. the difficulty of sleeping in a trench
d. the difficulty of maintaining a trench

Answer 1

The correct answer is D) the difficulty of maintaining a trench.

What this journal entry describes is the difficulty of maintaining a trench.

That is why we read in the excerpt that "We spend all our time digging and filling sandbags, running for supplies and stores, or building up the tops of the trench. There is no time to be weary or bored."

During World War I, a stalemate was the term widely used to describe a state of war in which neither side was winning or gaining an advantage.

This happened during the war in the trenches in WW 1.

The adaptations that the soldiers made for fighting in the trenches during World War 1, allowed the troops to modify the strategy when they built the trenches in the war front. The trenches were built to protect soldiers from firearms from the enemy. The strategy used prolonged the war in what historians call "a stalemate in the Western Front," from 1914 to 1918. During this period, there were no significant advances on both sides.