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World War 1 has been named the War to End all Wars, and with good reason. Thousands of lives were lost in the 4 year war and due to this; many have named WW1 a war of attrition. Attrition means ‘wearing down of the enemy’s strength’, and this is evident in many battles during the war. World War 1 involved combining new technology and 19th century tactics. Plans that were used were inflexible and often included cavalry. Tactics included bombarding the enemy with shells for a few days before attacking; meaning to kill the enemy and to cut wire but usually ended up only alerting the enemy that there was going to be an attack. Other tactics included running across no man’s land to get to the enemy’s trenches. No man’s land was the stretch of land that was in between the trenches, it was full of craters due to bombs and full of dead. However, this tactic only ended with men being mown down by the enemy’s large machine guns. The new technology of WW1 included machine guns, gas, tanks, bayonets, flamethrowers, rifles and grenades.
Machine guns and poison gas are two of the most well-known and notorious weapons of World War 1. Firing several hundred bullets per minute, machine guns were deadly weapons, especially when used against enemy troops. First used by the Germans during the war, it soon became a popular weapon choice for battle. Machine guns were heavy and had to be manned by multiple men. The machine gun was a popular defence as it allowed the enemy to be mown down as they crossed no man’s land. Poison Gas was also a new technology introduced in World War 1. Although gas was first introduced by the French, the gas that was used was tear gas which was more of an irritant rather than a poison. Poison gas was first used by the Germa...
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