HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Question
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They gave Germany a strong technological advantage on the Eastern Front.
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They contributed to high casualty rates by allowing troops to attack targets miles away.
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They supported Allied offensives by allowing troops to move into “no-man’s land.”
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They helped prolong the stalemate because they made it difficult for troops to advance
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Detailed explanation-1: -The machine gun came to represent the use of technology applied to weaponry. The power it gave to a single man made the offensive doctrine of the European powers obsolete, forcing the armies on the Western Front into trenches. All of the combatants were left with the option to dig in or be annihilated.
Detailed explanation-2: -Weapons played a large part in creating the difficult and unusual circumstances of trench warfare which the British Army encountered during the First World War (1914-18). The destructive power of modern artillery and machine guns forced soldiers to seek cover on the battlefield and dig in for protection.
Detailed explanation-3: -The machine gun became a component of this trench warfare deployment but from a tactical point of view; the soldiers could protect themselves from artillery in a trench but they also had to try to jump out and take the enemy trenches.
Detailed explanation-4: -Artillery was the biggest killer on the First World War battlefields, and it was artillery, not machine guns, that soldiers built trenches to avoid.