WORLD HISTORY

WORLD WAR I

CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“There were vast stretches of mud, of fields once cultivated, but now scarred with pits ____ rusty barbed wires. The roads were rivers of clay. They were lined with dugouts, cellars, and caves.”-Richard Harding Davis, war correspondent This passage describes the impact of
A
Total War
B
Poison Gas
C
Trench Warfare
D
The use of airplanes in World War 1
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The defensive power of the machine gun created the stalemate on the Western Front, and almost all of the technologies that were introduced during the war were built in order to defeat it. The introduction of this weapon radically changed the strategies and tactics used by militaries in the future.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Total war” includes four things: Mobilization, refusal to compromise, the blurring of roles between soldier and civilians, and total control of society.

Detailed explanation-3: -How was the Eastern Front different from the Western Front? While much of the fighting on the Western Front was characterized by trench warfare and stalemates, fighting on the Eastern Front was more conventional, involving fluid movements of armies in massive offensives and counteroffensives.

Detailed explanation-4: -Which of the following is the best example of how World War I was a total war? Women took over many jobs in war industries.

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