How Does Military Technology Affect Ww1

military technology would have affected civilians due to the frontlines developing within civilian populated areas. Unlike militarily involved countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States of America, who entered in 1941; due to the geographical positions of these allied countries they were not affected by most land technology. Yet, the development of bombing strategies, aviation and naval capabilities allowed for enemy forces to affect even these isolated countries. Bombing became a heavily used tactic during the war, with huge bombing campaigns becoming a norm. The German offensive on Britain was one of bombing major cities and military factories. ‘At Bath the numbers known to have been killed in two air raids were 148… and the
Such as the ‘Battle of Britain’ that was the German offensive to overrun British defences to allow for the occupation of Britain after the fall of another great nation, France. The fall of France was one that has been seen to be a triumphal example of German tactics of Blitzkrieg. ‘By Blitzkrieg we mean concentrated employment of armour and air forces to confuse the enemy with surprise and speed… the objective is to defeat the enemy quickly in a decision-making operation.’ This tactics was the use of two effective technology developments and the change of tactics from the First World War. The tank, first used in World War One to cross the trenches, ‘The trench deadlock of World War One was a nightmare scenario for the German Army’ Lessons were learnt from the stalemate battles that occurred through WW1. Technology allowed for tanks to go through development to make them faster, more agile and increasingly effective, removing the need for trench tactics. The incorporation of a tactic such as the ‘lightning war’ saw the German Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht gain large areas of land quickly and