Week 4 Day 1

Week 4 Day 1

This day we learn about the weapons of world war 1:

World war 1 has the most deaths in all history

world war 1 + world war 2 deaths have more deaths than every war combined

attrition

Nobody won the war (technically speaking)

People thought that the war is going to last very fast.

maginot

bareded wire kills the most people during the world war 1

Trench system is where soldiers could hide

War turned into a battle of artillery

Germans

18-pounder, anyone near 50 meters is killed, more damage

Howiitzer bigger and slow, works on brute force, less damage, bigger and slower