Unit VI. The Great War

C. An Industrialized War

C. An Industrialized War

1. Trench Warfarea. Heaviest fighting took place along the Western Front (600 mile stretch)

b. Dug along either side of “no man’s land” along the front*Ineffective: little territorial gain

*Disease and unsanitary conditions

2. New Weaponsa. WWI was the first war to make full use of modern technology

and machinery

*Machine gun, poison gas, dynamite

*Airplane, tank, submarine

*Gas masks, barbed wire

3. Total War

a. All a nations resources go into the war effort; the war is fought

at home as well as on the battlefield

*The draft

*Taxes and loans to pay for war effort

*Rationing of goods for the military

*Use of the press to spread propaganda

*Women joined the work force; some joined the

armed services or became nurses