Devastation in the Great War

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This paper covers contributing factors of the Great War's high death tolls and how the war changed combat forever. Some of the factors examined are weapons, tactics and conditions (such as poor living conditions, disease and the environment in the trenches ).

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"New technology also played a part in causing the destruction of World War I. Devices such as tanks, submarines, aircraft and machine guns all made their way into the war. The machine gun was one of the most widely used pieces of new technology. Every country involved in the war used machine guns. With their high rates of fire, a single machine gunner could decimate an entire company of soldiers.
Machine guns were heavily researched after the war (and still are to this day) and they continue to play a large role on any modern battlefield. Modern versions fixed the flaws of previous designs, such as making them lighter and more maneuverable, as well as increasing their reliability, which was considered one of the weapons biggest flaws."

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• Tignor, Robert, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Stephen Kotkin, Suzanne Marchand, Gyan Prakash and Michael Tsin. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart. New York, 2002. 2002.

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