A New Kind of Conflict: Review

1
A New Kind of Conflict Review

• Which new weapon was partly responsible for
  bringing the United States into the war?
• u-boats

2

• Name 3 ways that World War I was different from
  other wars
• War on multiple fronts
• Eastern and Western fronts
• 2. New weapons
• Machine guns, artillery, tanks
• 3. New technologies
• Radios and telephones
• Planes

3
Terms

• Western Front
• key area of fighting (theatre of war) in Western
  Europe where Germans dug and defended trenches to
  avoid losing territory already gained in France
  the British and French, unable to break through,
  began to build their own.
• stalemate
• dead-lock, neither side can defeat other
• took place on western front in France for 4 years

4

• poison gas
• gas first used by Germans and then the Allies to
  blind, choke victims, and or burn
• potentially deadly
• uncertain weapon due to wind shifts

5

• trench warfare
• used on the frontline and communication routes
• often constructed in a zig-zag pattern to avoid
  direct fire

6

• zeppelin
• large gas-filled balloons with machine guns
• used to bomb English coast
• easy to shoot out of sky

7

• u-boats
• German submarines used to sink ships carrying
  supplies to Britain