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Modern Weapons of War

• World War I
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A New Kind of War

• Hopes for a quick victory faded fast. Both sides
  found themselves fighting a two-front war.
• A front is a line along which opposing armies
  face each other.
• On the Western Front, each side engaged in trench
  warfare.
• Soldiers fought from two lines of trenches, or
  ditches, that soon reached the English Channel
  into Switzerland. Here the war stalled for 4
  years.

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Trench Warfare
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On the Eastern Front

• The broad stretch of land along the Russian
  border--- large armies met in battle.
• Each side tried to cause as many causalities as
  possible.

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The Industrial Revolution

• The Industrial Revolution and new technology made
  the fighting even more deadly.
• Factories churned out guns, shells, and bombs
  faster than ever.
• New and mass-produced weapons increased the
  destruction.

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Other New Weapons of World War I Airplanes

• Appeared over battle fields for the first time.

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Submarines

• Brought death to the oceans.

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Machine guns

• Became widely used.

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Long-range Artillery

• Hurled bombs behind enemy lines.

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Poison Gases

• Were used for the first time.

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Gas Masks

• Were issued to protect soldiers from poisonous
  fumes.

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Tanks

• Another first, rolled over bombed-out landscapes.

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Flamethrowers

• Blasted fire at advancing troops or into
  foxholes dug to escape exploding shells.

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Human costs(deaths)

• The human costs of war reached into the millions.
• Battlefield deaths soared to record numbers.
• The death of civilians, nonmilitary citizens,
  pushed the death toll even higher.
• By the end of the war, civilian causalities
  numbered around 13 million.