How Did the Use of New Technologies During World War I Influence the War?
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Question by Jdawg: How did the use of new technologies during World War I influence the war?
How did the use of new technologies during World War I influence the war? Which sides benefited the most from which technologies? Did any of them play a role in either lengthening or in shortening the war? Which technologies were the most important?
Best answer:
Answer by marzmargs12
The development of the tank mean't the infantry had better firecover.
Add your own answer in the comments!
January 3rd, 2011 - 10:04
Gas was used by the Germans extensively, and gave them a lead in the war.
Americans came in with tanks, and the Germans couldn’t overcome it.
January 3rd, 2011 - 10:40
It changed the entire face of battle. You could no longer march in a line and fire at each other. One machine gun could wipe out the entire line. World war 1 became a war of stalemate and death. First no one could really make a push in either direction. You would have to jump out of your trench and charge at the enemy, ones outside the trench you are now subject to death by so many ways. Machine guns would start to open up as you advanced, snipers would start firing at everything. Artillery would start firing wasting the entire stretch of no mans land. Tanks back then were an advantage but they are nothing like the tanks we have now. They were basically cars with armor on them.
So after you came to your senses and stayed in your trench death was still just as likely if not more likely. There were diseases of all sorts in the trenches carried by rats and dead bodies. Food was short on both sides and if it rained your trench would start to fill with water. Also even sitting in your trench you are not safe from the enemy. Artillery would launch toxic gasses into your trench killing thousands in a horrible death. Sometimes you would fire the poisonous gasses at your enemy and the wind would blow it back to you.
The Central Powers benefited the most just because they were a little ahead of the allies. Especially in their tanks.
Overall the war would have been Much shorter had there not been any of these technologies.
The machine gun was by far the most important weapon. Without it people could have possibly pushed foreward in the war millions less would have died. The machine gun is now used in every army in the world and takes far less training to use than most of the weapons previously had.