USA HISTORY

During WWI, technology was used to developed new weapons such has (more than one answer may be correct)

(A) Nuclear weapons

(B) ** Automatic rifles and Flamethrowers

(C) ** Submarines and Tanks

(D) ** Poison Gas and Blimps

Concept note-1: -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-2: -World War I popularized the use of the machine gun-capable of bringing down row after row of soldiers from a distance on the battlefield. This weapon, along with barbed wire and mines, made movement across open land both difficult and dangerous. Thus trench warfare was born.

Concept note-3: -It is estimated that as many as 85% of the 91, 000 gas deaths in WWI were a result of phosgene or the related agent, diphosgene (trichloromethane chloroformate). The most commonly used gas in WWI was ‘mustard gas’ [bis(2-chloroethyl) sulfide].