Critical Thinking 19-3!

In what ways did WWI represent a frightening new kind of warfare?

WWI in general was a terrifying war. This war was one of the bloodiest of all time. 22 million people died and half of them were civilians. This meant that war was not only causing death to troops but was reaching civilians. This would cause a general feeling of terror and paranoia in the general public because it was a very real thing that any day the war could reach you. The numbers of refugees and wounded were incredibly high, 10 million and 20 million respectively.

This war brought with military weapons that were very frighting. Machine guns, tanks, and poison gas allowed for there to be mass killings in a battle. These attack took the place of people just shooting at one another, now an attack could come from anywhere or anyone and so many people were dying in these attacks that it was having horrible lasting effects on the surviving people. The conditions were so bad that it was leaving many shell shocked and with mental and physical problems.