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1 Trench Warfare & Technology
World War I -- Trench Warfare & Technology

2 A Bloody Conflict It was the first major war since the Industrial Revolution. Technology made it a long, bloody fight Trench warfare: network of ditches used for protection No Man’s Land: space between opposing trenches Trench Warfare

3 New Weapons Slow & unreliable, they could cross trenches & crush barb wire MACHINE GUNS TANKS Made it difficult to capture enemy trenches; could gun down hundreds of men POISON GAS Caused blindness & suffocation

4 Life in the Trenches ZEPPLINS Germans used To drop bombs AIRCRAFT
First for spying, then machine guns added ZEPPLINS Germans used To drop bombs AIRCRAFT U-BOATS Used on supply & military ships

5 Life in the Trenches Living with the dead RATS Trench foot

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