Changes In Trench Warfare

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New inventions that were discovered in the era of World War I made fighting techniques more efficient. This war was the turning points for new and useful weapons. Before this point the methods to warfare were very simple and straight forward, now with planes in the air creating a whole other dimensions to tactics and strategy, tanks that covered the ground, and torpedoes in the water. Times were changing and if you were lagging behind you may have been defeated by other nations. Some of the biggest changes to the scenes was the invention of machine guns, poisonous gases/ chemical warfare, and trench warfare. First, the machine gun was invention by Hiram Maxim in 1884 and was offered to the British but they turned it down due to the fact…show more content…
It allowed armies to navigate around a strategic map of dug in tunnels in the ground allowing cover and mobility. Most trenches were just deep enough to were a man would stand straight barely being seen if not at all by an enemy. Unfortunately though some were so short that men had to crawl and crouch to stay hidden from enemy snipers. The dirt that dug the trench laid in front for protection along with sandbags. The trenches were dug in zig zag shapes instead of straight lines to make it harder for enemies to shoot down into the tranches while simultaneously making it harder for them to capture. The layout of the trenches faced each other maybe 800 meters away with a space in between them covered in barbwire called "No Man's Land" because you were fully exposed and didn't stand much of a chance. But, on occasions they would cross over the barbwire into enemy territory at night. This was a whole other fighting style that was very new and was hard to master. Behind the primary trench was a secondary trench in case the first one was capture or they needed support. The downfall of trench warfare was the poor living conditions the soldiers faced while stationed below ground. It was very unsanitary and hard to achieve the necessities they needed to survive because getting the supplies to them was difficult to overcome. With these trenches making war even more difficult new strategies much be made up,…show more content…
With many of the new weapons created and put in use had helped make some countries a super power and helped the outcome of the next would war and any other wars next to come in the future. Some of the major weapons created in the span of the war were machine guns that helped give sides a major edge, trench warfare which proved to be a complex system, but very dangerous, and chemical warfare which was interesting because it proved to be a real secret weapon to many countries because it had a power unlike any other to be able to kill you not instantly, but over a period of time. These are a couple of reasons why these things proved to be important to the World War One era. These inventions remain to be used it todays wars showing that these discoveries had a large impact in warfare in a
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