The Role Of Trench Warfare In The First World War

At the end of World War, I, with the Central powers defeated, the Allies met in Paris to discuss the terms of peace. This led to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. In the treaty Germany was forced to let go of a lot of land. The land taken away from them was; Alsace-Lorraine which was given to the French, Eupen and Malmedy given to the Belgians, Northern Schleswig given to Denmark, Hultschin given to Czechoslovakia and West Prussia, Possen and Upper Silesia given to Polland (Versailles, 2018). Additionally, the treaty required the Germans to relinquish their sovereign colonies to the League of Nations then put control of Allied states (Versailles, 2018).
Another major requirement of the treaty was Germany to take full responsibility of
Trench warfare was a land warfare where troops would dig and use trenches to protect themselves against enemy’s small arms fire and shelter against artillery (Graham, 2004). World War I saw the use of tanks, aircrafts, machine guns and U-boats. However, these weapons were slow. Their tanks were not well advanced and moved slowly. The fighter aircrafts were largely ineffective and inaccurate hence less used. Only Germany had access to U-boats. World War II was characterized by island hopping. It was a strategy employed by the US military in the pacific stage where marines would capture small islands one at a time, using them for airbases or anchorages and shortening their distance from their forces to Japan (“Island Hopping, 2018”). The Germans employed the Blitzkrieg (also known as lightning warfare) tactic, in which they would destabilize enemy forces using mobile forces (Frieser, 2013). In their case, they employed tanks which would be used to destroy buildings and fortresses, then infantry would attack. The tanks in World War II were bigger, faster and deadlier. Aircrafts were also widely employed, they were better armed and more accurate. The allied now had access to the U-boat technology, improved them
However, the first military action took place on June 1950, when soldiers of the North Korean People’s Army, backed by the Soviets, invaded the South, backed by the United States (Millet, 2018). After the second World War, United States and the Soviet Union started competing and developing military weapons. To support their status as super powers, both countries started developing nuclear bombs. The disastrous capability of nuclear bombs made them to be cautious about using them. However, in 1962, the two superpowers almost engaged in a nuclear conflict, it was called the Cuban Missile crisis (White, 2015). Over the years, these two countries fought their ideology war in many countries and regions. Several crises almost caused another war, they included the Suez crisis, the Berlin crisis of 1961, the Vietnam war among