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