WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Another new weapon, the tank, finally helped end the stalemate in the trenches. Soldiers could drive tanks over barbed wire and crush the otherwise treacherous material. They could also steer the tanks up steep embankments and across ditches to attack enemy trenches.

Detailed explanation-2: -It is estimated that if all the trenches built along the western front were laid end-to-end they would total over 25, 000 miles long. The trenches needed constant repair or they would erode from the weather and from enemy bombs. The British said it took 450 men 6 hours to build about 250 meters of a trench system.

Detailed explanation-3: -The war had reached a stalemate, a state where both sides are so evenly balanced that neither can breakthrough against the enemy. The advances in Technology played a big role in creating the stalemate through strong defensive weaponry such as Machine Guns and Artillery, this caused ‘trench warfare’ (BOOK 48).

Detailed explanation-4: -Trechwarfare led to a stalemate because both sides lost too many soilders and any further action would just lead to more and more problems and deadlier consequences. List some of the new technologies (weapons) used during WWI.