Technology Caused and Ended WWI
by Barry Wright
Essay: Technology Caused and Ended WWI
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By December 1914 the First World War had reached a dilemma on the western front that neither the triple entente
nor the triple alliance had expected. 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’ (Hetherton, Greg. "The Technology of War"). Trench war is when troops from both sides are protected
from the enemy’s firepower through trenches. Many advances in technology also attempted to break the
stalemate throughout the war with tanks, gas and aircraft, these however failed. Eventually the stalemate was
broken through a combination of improved technology, new strategies and the blockading of the German ports.
Creation of Stalemate
The stalemate on the Western front had developed by December 1914 because of the new advances in defensive
weaponry where both sides had developed lethal weaponry like the machine guns and artillery, which
subsequently led to trench warfare. The Machine Gun was a very dominant weapon in the First World War. It could
kill hundreds of men a minute due to its rapid firing rate of 600 bullets a minute. However the machine guns that
were used in the First World War weighed between 30kg – 60kg, would require a four to six operators and could
heat up extremely quickly, clearly not very effective as a offensive weapon (Duffy, Michael. "Machine Guns.")
Machine Guns were only effective for defense as they were extremely heavy, required a lot of ammunition a
needed to be fixed into the ground. This made it severely difficult to attack and move with machine guns. Art...
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