With France out of the war, German bomber planes based near the English Channel were able to launch raids on London and other cities during the Blitz, with varying degrees of success. After World War I, the concept of massed aerial bombing—the "Bomber Dream"—had become very popular with politicians and military leaders seeking an alternative to the carnage of trench warfare, and as a result, the air forces of Britain, France, and Germany had developed fleets of bomber planes to enable
Two technological advances that had a major impact on World War I were the tanks and the airplanes. Each of these technological advancements gave both a positive effect and a negative effect for the war. These technological advances gave an upper hand to one nation and other advances to another. Later other nations slowly began to copy and mimic other nations’ technology; trying to perfect it. Both the tank and the airplane made a big impact in World War I.
Although the battle of Britain could also be considered one of Canada’s most important battles since a lot of Canadian fighter pilots fought and helped take control of the air because it was a joint effort and not strictly a Canadian force this battle was not included The Battle of the Atlantic was one of the most important battles for Canada because it controlled all the supplies that were heading to the allies. To play a role in the battle Canada had to increase the size of their navy. They went from 11 ships and 3000 men to roughly 400 ships and around 100,000 men (Hillis1). The larger navy enabled for more supply’s to safely cross the Atlantic Ocean and to further aid in the war effort in Europe. This was a serious contribution to the eventual victory in Europe.
As we see in source 7, Captain D. Kelly states ‘The attack gave a striking proof of the also make mentions of the advancements of the British army’. By 1916 the British military were using tanks for the first time ever in Flers. We see in source 8 Gordon Corrigon state the numerous ways in which the military improved: “Tanks, mechanicals transports, indirect fire by artillery, trench mortars’. This evidently backs up source 7 as both sources 8 and 8 mention all of the various tactical and mechanical advances. This backs up information we already know in that the British army learnt from its defeats at the very start of the war, for example the battle of Mons.
By the time the United States entered World War II in the early 1940's, the military had undergone several technological advancements in many different areas of the army. The grenade was introduced, which aided the troops of the frontline in close combat as it created a small explosion able to kill small numbers of enemies in one throw. Machine guns such as the Thomson M1 or the “Tommy gun” fired up to 700 rounds per minute. Rifles such as the M1 Garand were one of the first gas operated semi-automatic infantry weapons used on the frontlines. Heavy machine guns were introduced that aided in powerful superiority for frontline combat such as the M1919 which fired over 500 rounds per minute and required a 250-round belt magazine and a team of two soldiers to operate.
As the war drew on, other weapons such as gas and tanks were used by the Germans for the first time at the First Battle of Ypres in 1915, and became a major tool of warfare on the Western Front. Tanks were used by the British for the first time at the Battle of the Somme in 1916 to little effect, but following technological innovation were crucial tot e success of the Allied counter offensive in 1918. The stalemate was eventually broken by a shift in tactics and strategies. Unlike preceding campaigns, the Ludendorff offensive was able to retain the element of surprise by not employing pre-emptive artillery barrage. This, coupled with the use of highly trained storm troopers meant that the Germans were able to make significant gains in
Shelling also became very popular during this war. Again All Quite on the Western Front shows the devastation shelling causes to the land and the soldiers. Shelling could be timed perfectly to blow up right in front of troops but not kill them. The technological advances during WW1 helped to raise the death toll to a staggering
The United States Army was in charge of the project and it was overseen by Major General Leslie Groves. As you can imagine, this was not just a walk in Central Park. There were many setbacks of this development such as money, materials, and security. From the first major initiation of atomic weaponry in the early 1940's, the United States seemed to have a leg up on any competition, most of which came about 50 miles away from mainland Alaska (which was not part of the United States until 1952) and about 575 miles away from Washington State (Tuchman, Palin). There are two islands though called Big Diomede and Little Diomede controlled by Russia and the United States respectively, which are only separated by about two and a half miles.
The formation of the Allies and Axis was a major and crucial development in the second edition of World War, and the Allied powers ultimately prevailed as the stronger unit. With another World War emerging, technology had to be enhanced, and these are still some inventions that we use today. When Japanese fighter jets came piercing through the American air, this forever sealed the deal
World War II saw the new application of many new technologies by military forces on all sides of the conflict, and some of them had a profound impact on the war. The airplane in particular became a fundamental instrument of war and changed the way many battles were fought. Much the same may be said of the aircraft carrier, which became crucial to the United States after so many of its battleships were lost at Pearl Harbor. As a result of these developments, the Battle of Britain in 1940 marked the first time in history when air power alone determined the course of a major battle, and the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942 was the first naval battle in history fought exclusively in the air, by carrier-based planes. Both sides also realized the