please explain|||From Shmoop History/World War I
World War I was so deadly primarily because it saw the use of nineteenth-century military tactics with twentieth-century technology.
World War I introduced machine guns, modern artillery and airplanes to the battlefield. Railroads made the supply of vast, stationary armies possible, and even the taxi cabs of Paris were employed to bring men to the front in 1914. Horses were removed from the battlefield except as beasts of burden, and tanks entered service in 1916. But the most destructive weapon of World War I was invented in DeKalb, Illinois in 1874 to help cattle farmers keep control of their flocks. Farmer Joseph Glidden invented a useable form of barbed wire after seeing an example at a county fair.|||The tank meant more mobility and the beginning of mechanization of the military.
Mustard gas meant having to adapt and was the beginning of chemical warfare.
The first machine guns were used.|||Machine guns meant that you simply could not charge the other guys%26#039; front lines without willing to take a lot of casualties. Eventually, late in the war tanks were introduced. Tanks meant that you could charge the front lines (with Tank).
The Airplane meant that not only could you get an aerial view of what the other guy was doing it also meant that you had a new front: the air that you had to have superiority in.
The Submarine was a way to disrupt the other guy%26#039;s shipping without ships.
All of these weapons mentioned meant more than ever, that the country with the largest industrial base was the country that was most likely to win.|||the machine gun was not new, but its use changed the way wars were fought. You just couldn%26#039;t line up your troops and march them over to the enemy.
barbed wire was used to protect trenches
airplanes went from basicly the wright brothers early models to fighters and bombers in 4 years.
tanks were used for the first time
poison gas was used.
the %26quot;creeping barage%26quot; came into play
the lethal submarines changed the way goods and men where shipped: convoys.
