What impact did new technology and industrialization have on World War I?
I love this. New technology allowed both sides to be much more effecient at killing each other. Planes for scouting, artillery for bombarding (long range moratrs with an increased impact), machine guns to mow dow dozens on men in a matter of seconds. Warships were only used a handful of times so I don’t have anything on that. The rifles became better and snipers were able to pick off enemies from hundreds of meters away, unlike rifles. Tanks played an insignificant role in World War I, but they were impervious to bullets, there were not rocket launchers and only the allies had tanks (but a few). Industrialization allowed weapons, food, munitions, artillery, planes, etc. to be produced on a mass scale, allowing the equipment of more men, and better equipment, since the weapons that would have normally taken a long time to hand build could now be built in the dozen to thousands each day. Think of the American civil war, the Union was able to mass produce everything. Though the new techno
