War technology
Chemical warfare, Tanks, artillery, ships, aircrafts these are just few of the many technologies used during WW1 which ended million's of lives. The first world war was said to be the first technology war, many ideas were developed over the four years. WW1 shined a trend to industrialism and an approach towards mass production. In 1918, modern developments of war technology and revolution were in use. However, the climb of technological warfare did not outcome in fewer deaths or injuries.
Guns & artillery
CHEMICAL WARFARE
Chemical warfare was an important feature of the great war. Poison gas was among one of the most feared weapon used in WW1. Chemical warfare first appeared when Germans used poison gas during a surprise attack in Flinders, Belgium in 1915. The germans used poison gas the most but by 1918 both side were using it. About four percent of casualties during WW1 was from poison gas. As poison gas was being used more and more on the battlefield, both sides of the war started to use gas masks to counter it. The gas masks were great for countering the gas but at the same time the masks made it hard for soldiers to fight as it blocked most of their view and made it harder to hear.
Aircrafts
At the start of the war aircrafts were primarily used to scout and observe enemy locations and troops, however due to the rapid growth of development it turned into a weapon of destruction. The first aircraft was manufactured in 1915 by Anthony Fokker who was working for the germans. There were different types of aircrafts used during WW1 such as the attack plane, bomber and spy planes. The attack plane was used to attack bombers and project friendly bombers. The bomber were used to bomb enemy factories and enemy bases. The spy plane was mostly used for scouting enemy locations and tracking movements of enemy troops.
Tanks
World war one marked the first use of the tank, it replaced cavalry in the role of pushing through enemy lines/defences. A tank is a heavily armoured vehicle with weapons attached all around it. The first tank on the battlefield was the British Mark 1, at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette. Barbed wire and machine guns had turned trench warfare into a process of which the defence had a gigantic advantage but the tank changed that. They were capable of travelling through all type's of terrain which includes trenches. The tank could easily smash through barbed wire and the machine gun had no effect on it.
War AT sea
As the war in Europe broke out into an all out war, consuming massive amounts of supplies, equipment and soldiers, resupply ships from home countries and allies sailed across the Atlantic. Battleships clashed with each other from the Indian Ocean to the North sea, competing for territory and home posts. New technologies were invented and refined as war at sea started to build up, such as submarine warfare, camouflaged hulls (camouflaged ships) and huge aircraft carriers.
The Dardanelles
In March 1915, British/French forces launched a naval attack on Turkish forces in the Dardanelles in North Western Turkey. The purpose was to take control of the strategically vital strait separating Europe from Asia. It resulted in heavy casualties due to their fail, along with the campaign that followed later that year in Gallipoli.
The stakes were high for both sides to capture and control the area. If the British had control over the strait they were able to take a direct line to the Russian navy in the Black sea, granting them the supply of munitions (military weapons, ammunition and equipment).
The stakes were high for both sides to capture and control the area. If the British had control over the strait they were able to take a direct line to the Russian navy in the Black sea, granting them the supply of munitions (military weapons, ammunition and equipment).
the Aegean sea
The Aegean sea is part of the eastern Mediterranean sea, boarded by Greece, Turkey and the island of Crete. Lying north of the Aegean sea is the Dardanelles strait. Many islands in the Aegean sea were's Greece's of Turkey's, but after the second Bulk-an war Turkey lost their islands except for Imbors and Tenedos. When Turkey entered the war in 1914, Britain and France took both islands, then they built airfields on both island, also using them as a naval and supply base for the Dardanelles and the Gallipoli campaign.
With the ongoing debate about whether to evacuate Gallipoli and an attempt to support Serbia, Britain and France landed 13,000 troops on the Greek port of Salonica (now called Thessaloniki) in October 5, 1915. At the end of the war, the allies would have an army of 600,00 men on the Salonica front.