A New Kind of Conflict: Review

Which new weapon was partly responsible for bringing the United States into the war?

u-boats

Name 3 ways that World War I was different from other wars

1.War on multiple fronts

• Eastern and Western fronts

2. New weapons

• Machine guns, artillery, tanks

3. New technologies

• Radios and telephones

• Planes

Terms

Western Front: key area of fighting (theatre of war) in

Western Europe where Germans dug and defended trenches to avoid losing territory already gained in France; the British and French, unable to break through, began to build their own.

stalemate:dead-lock, neither side can defeat othertook place on western front in France for 4 years

poison gas: gas first used by Germans and then the Allies to

blind, choke victims, and or burn potentially deadly uncertain weapon due to wind shifts

trench warfare: used on the frontline and communication routes often constructed in a zig-zag pattern to avoid

direct fire

zeppelin: large gas-filled balloons with machine guns used to bomb English coast easy to shoot out of sky

u-boats: German submarines used to sink ships carrying

supplies to Britain