HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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smaller nations becoming part of larger empires after the war
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a smaller number of refugees during the war
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increased military casualties in battles fought during the war
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a slowdown in transportation improvements after the war
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Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Soldiers loading a 155mm Howitzer near Meuse, France, 1918. Learn more in the Online Collections Database. 60% of the battlefield casualties in WWI were caused by artillery shells exploding. Shrapnel wounds were particularly brutal for soldiers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Perhaps the most significant technological advance during World War I was the improvement of the machine gun, a weapon originally developed by an American, Hiram Maxim.
Detailed explanation-4: -Inventors and military men devised new types of weapons, such as the repeating rifle and the submarine, that forever changed the way that wars were fought. Even more important were the technologies that did not specifically have to do with the war, like the railroad and the telegraph.