Nature of War, 1914-1918 Flashcards

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Trench Warefare

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  • Faced each other for 4 years
  • People ran over top the trenches
    • No Mans Land between them
    • Attack the enemy
    • Person would run because the person in front of them ran
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Technological Advances

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  • Artillery, Rifles, Machine Guns (based on Machine Guns)
  • Poison Gas
  • Flame throwers
  • Surveillance (scouting)
  • Communication
    • Code messages
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Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

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  • Weakest member of alliance
  • British Naval Strategy
    • Use navy to bomb out Turkish
    •Winston Churchill’s idea
    • failed, kicked out
  • Gallipoli Campaign - 1915
    • force Turkey out of war - failed
  • Destroyed ANZACS (Australia, New Zealand)
  • Bulgaria joined Central Powers - 1915
  • Serbia defeated, 1915
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