Describe The Changes In The First World War

The First World War has redefined the ways of fighting in wars. The reason is due to the rapidly inventing of new technology especially in developing new types of weapons. Even thought in the beginning of the war the soldiers were still using the 19 central style of stratagem but one clear way to describe the changes in the World War One based on the development of weapons is “The soldiers rode on horses but leaved on air planes”(Libby H O’Connell.). Some examples are machine guns and flame thrower, the tanks and dreadnoughts of Britain and U- boat of German. These weapons of mass destruction totally renewed the way that wars were fought. Also these weapons have made the battle even more deadly than any war happened before and also made the war last much longer and expensive.These weapons may be the
For the soldiers the most horrible thing is the gas especially the gas that does not cause a immediate death. The soldier that have contacted this kind of gas will suffer from the pain that the gas brought, this situation usually last a few day or even weeks until the men actually dead. 110,000 tons of gas were used during the war and resulting a casualty of 500,000 person. Germany sank 5,554 Allied and neutral ships but only lost 175 U-boat of 400 that were in build. One their victim was the RMS Lusitania. A German U-boat fired a torpedo at Lusitania. After Lusitania was torpedoed shell broke and began to sink, then in only 15 mins 1,198 on board were dead in clouding 128 Americans. This action has made America joint the war which led to the bloodiest war the Hundred Day Offensive Which caused 1,855,369 men dead including 127,000 Americans. Also because of the trench warfare soldier was very was easy to get trench foot the British itself treated 2000 case of that. Also “for the first time in the history ,Battle wounds accounted for more death than