New Weapons
Tanks, poison gas, submarines airplanes machine guns/artillery
Tanks
armored machines that provided an effective technique for attacking enemy trenches. Could endure most gunfire, drove right through rows of barbed wire, and often crossed over trenches.
Poison Gas
- Crudest weapon made during WW1
-Chlorine gas and phosgene
-attacks the lungs, rendering its victims unable to breathe.
-Mustard gas
- attacks the skin, causing agonizing blisters and excruciating pain. - they became less effective as they were improved.
Submarines
-capable of traveling and shooting torpedoes while in underwater
-slow and fragile
-remains unseen and undetected
-underseeboot
-used it for unrestricted submarine warfare
airplanes
- had machine guns, and bombs
-vulnerable constituting of wood, canvas and write
-pilots did not has parachutes,
machine guns/artillery
-invented in 1800s
-ability to mow down enemies quickly in large numbers forever changed modern warfare.
Militarism
arms race/ Europeans expanded their armies and navies
Alliances
Allies agreed to protect each other if they were attacked
Allied powers
Uk, France, Russia
Central Powers
Germany
Austria Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Bulgaria
Other Alliances
Russia- Serbia
UK-Belgium
Imperialism
Many of the European nations competed for power in regions throughout the world
Nationalism
Many of the people with common cultures in Europe sought to throw off foreign rulers. Nationalists wanted to create independent countries for their people and be ruled by self government. EX. Slavs ruled by Austro-Hungarian Empire
The Spark
- assasination of Arch Duke Franz F.
- Austria-Hungary accused Serbia of supporting terrorists.
- Russia started to mobilize their troops in case of going (into war). Germans tried to stop, didn’t respond.
- Germany declares war on Russia. Germany declares war on France, Russia’s ally.
- Scheliefen plan
- Germany marches through belgium
- Britian declares war to protect belgium.
