USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

CAUSES OF WORLD WAR I

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Using its industrial might to prepare for World War I, Germany was ____ (Complete this sentence using the best possible answer below)

(A) unable to prevent workers from striking

(B) ** able to produce weapons at maximum capacity, matching the industrial might of rival England

(C) unable to produce enough supplies to remain in the war

(D) able to produce enough submarines to sink the British fleet

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Heavy artillery, machine guns, tanks, motorized transport vehicles, high explosives, chemical weapons, airplanes, field radios and telephones, aerial reconnaissance cameras, and rapidly advancing medical technology and science were just a few of the areas that reshaped twentieth century warfare.

Concept note-2: -Industrialisation played a major role in World War One. New military machinery could be produced at a much larger scale and at a much faster rate than before. Along with innovative technology, this led to one of the most devastating wars in human history.

Concept note-3: -Military technology of the time included important innovations in machine guns, grenades, and artillery, along with essentially new weapons such as submarines, poison gas, warplanes and tanks.

Concept note-4: -Technological developments in engineering, metallurgy, chemistry, and optics had produced weapons deadlier than anything known before. The power of defensive weapons made winning the war on the western front all but impossible for either side.