The change in Warfarec

    The way warfare was before World War 1 was quite different to what it used to be say 10 or 50 years from before the first World War started. If you think of how the war and how warfare was say in the American civil war or the war of 1812 where the Americans invaded Canada in the attempt to take the country over is very different even just 100 years later when the first world war broke out. For example in the war of 1812 they did have cannons but the cannons were not accurate in any means they were more a psychological weapon. The big bang that they made were to scare men, they did infact do damage but not to an extent of the "shelling" that took place in World War 1. Later they came out with the gatling gun again the loud bang and the multiple rounds shot from it were a great way of scaring men but were extremely inaccurate. In World War 1 you could say it was devastating and a lose of lives to great numbers. The machine guns that they used where very accurate and could put out multiple rounds unlike anything before it. The use of the ross rifles with bayonets that can be put on used for close range combat is a weapon made for killing it wasn't gunpowder and a ball anymore it was centerfire cartridges that the clips held 8 shots and were bolt action not one shot then reload. You could also put scopes on the guns and shoot other people from 800 yards away which would have never been thought of years before. The shelling used which were cannons but instead of shooting round balls shot missile which are very accurate and can be close to pin point, they are very disruptive and could result in fatal deaths. The first tanks that came out which are moving armoured vehicles with cannons on them. The war did not just take place on the ground but also up in the sky with first ever plane's being used to kill people, they were used to come down and shoot people even in blank places because they are moving. They used trenches not standing away from each other twenty yards waiting to be shot at not that trenches are a better idea but at least they can be hidden but running up to the enemy's trench to try take it over isn't that effective either. The weapons and machines and strategy used was for killing and because of it resulted in mass numbers of death.