The Great War was the birth of an unprecedented amount of death and destruction. The advances in technology and weaponry caused the deaths of soldiers and the destruction of cities to grow exponentially to an amount that had never been achieved or thought possible prior to The Great War. It was an end with the traditional style of warfare and the beginning of a dehumanized warfare. It could be said, in general, that traditional warfare died because of the dramatic increase in violence of The Great War (Rouzeau p 28). In addition, the newly radicalized warfare was changed as a result of number of deaths and injuries, logistics, blockades, genocide, racism, and the concept of the “new man.”
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The heavy artillery was the cause of millions of deaths. In addition, logistics was one of the main reasons for the end of the war, while on the other hand, it could be said that it also was a cause for the severity of the war. According to Stevenson, “On land, railways were the principal means of bulk long-distance transport.” Even the civilian prisoners helped with the logistics of the occupiers by repairing these railways (Rouzeau p.78). The Allies had the upper hand by sea because they possessed more merchant ships than the Central Powers (Stevenson, 2015). The Germans were implementing their new technology called U-Boats to sink the Ally’s ships. The Allies countered these attacks of the German U-Boats by forming convoys around the supply ships to protect them from …show more content…
It was a total war because opposing forces were able to use any and all kinds of weaponry that they desired. The greatest of all war crimes committed during this total war was entitled the Massacre of the Armenians where more than one million men, women, and children were deported and forced to walk the roads of Anatolia. This was unique from past wars because of the civilian death toll it created. Most died of hunger or exhaustion while the people that fell behind, and were unable to keep up, were killed. This was the greatest act of genocide, or mass killing of a certain nation or race, during The Great War (Rouzeau
There was an incredible change in the amount of deaths …show more content…
The heavy artillery was the cause of millions of deaths. In addition, logistics was one of the main reasons for the end of the war, while on the other hand, it could be said that it also was a cause for the severity of the war. According to Stevenson, “On land, railways were the principal means of bulk long-distance transport.” Even the civilian prisoners helped with the logistics of the occupiers by repairing these railways (Rouzeau p.78). The Allies had the upper hand by sea because they possessed more merchant ships than the Central Powers (Stevenson, 2015). The Germans were implementing their new technology called U-Boats to sink the Ally’s ships. The Allies countered these attacks of the German U-Boats by forming convoys around the supply ships to protect them from …show more content…
It was a total war because opposing forces were able to use any and all kinds of weaponry that they desired. The greatest of all war crimes committed during this total war was entitled the Massacre of the Armenians where more than one million men, women, and children were deported and forced to walk the roads of Anatolia. This was unique from past wars because of the civilian death toll it created. Most died of hunger or exhaustion while the people that fell behind, and were unable to keep up, were killed. This was the greatest act of genocide, or mass killing of a certain nation or race, during The Great War (Rouzeau