Why did new technology lengthen World War I?
During any war, at least in any war since the beginning of the industrial revolution, there have been great advances in weaponry, transportation, communications, medicine because of the needs during wartime. WWI was the first war in which the American army lost more men in combat than were lost to disease. In my reading, I have been led to understand that the preponderance of technology was on the side of the allies rather than the Germans, which would tend to shorten the war rather than lengthen it. I am wide open to differing opinions, well except when they are wrong. Radiotelephones were quite widely used by the American army in WWI. Somewhere around here, I even have a copy of the phonetic alphabet that was used. Tanks were first used by the British and the Americans. They were a frightening new weapon to the Germans, although not so effective as they could have been if the right terrain had been available and proper tactics had been developed. The war would have continued for years if the Americans had not intervened. By the summer of 1918, the German economy was on the verge of total collapse. The Germans were running out of troops. Their generals realized that they could no longer continue. It was the American intervention and the collapse of the German economy which brought the war to a close.
How did new technology affect world war 1?
Your main question and details are actually two different topics. How did tech affect WWI? This address the machine gun, artillery and mustard gas. What tech was invented during WWI? That would be the tank, airplane, and submarine as Name Withheld said. But none of them really had an impact on WWI. They were too new. They had a huge impact on WWII. So getting back to machine guns and artillery. Huge impact for WWI for one reason. These are defensive weapons, at least at the time of WWI. Submachine guns didn't exist. So the defense had a huge advantage. That is why so many soldiers got slaughtered. Ditto artillery. It doesn't move like a tank does. Great for defense, less so for offense.
World War One Questions! PLEASE HELP!?!?!?!?!?
1. Which new technological development was created for the purpose of destroying enemy boats in a very secret way? How is this important? 2. What piece of machinery created a stalemate on the western front? 3. What was the Western front and who fought there? What was the Eastern front and who fought there? 4. What event ended Russian involvement in the war? Why? Why was the treaty of Brest-Litovsk a major blow to the allied powers? What area of attack did the allies lose? 5. What was U.S foreign policy during most of WW1? 6. How did Germany force U.S involvement into WW1? What ship did this involve? How did U.S involvement affect the outcome of the war? 7. By the end of the Great War, what was the physical, financial, and emotional state of Europe? 8. Who was Woodrow Wilson and what was the "Fourteen Points''? It's okay if you can't answer them all i'm just having trouble finding the answers! Thank you so much! (: Helpful website: http://www.firstworldwar.com/index.htm Thank You Again! (:
How did new technology change warfare? (world war one)?
Well, take a look at the airplane. Entering the war it was pretty much viewed as just an observation platform. It was the pilots and observers who lead to real changes there. They realized that the other side was doing the same thing so if they took up some guns they could try shooting down the opposing side's observervation planes. Also they realized that small hand held bombs or percussion grenades could be dropped on enemy lines from the air. Both these realizations lead directly to the development of the fighter, which was built specifically to shoot down other aircraft, and the bomber, which was built specifically to attack enemy troops and cities. Fighters also offered the option to strafe enemy positions. Machine guns during WWI were even more bulky than they are today and thusly a bit like field artillery of about fifty years prior. That is to say it could be mobile but you more set it up in one position and left it there rather than move it forward. Yet fighters were a mobile machine gun platform that actually allowed the guns to be used offensively against the enemy rather than defensively as they were on the ground. And bombers weren't merely short range aircraft carrying light loads. By the end of the war you had bombers that could remain aloft for about eight hours and carry upwards of 7,500 lbs of bombs.