Thursday, April 16, 2015

Technology goes to war

The following graphic shows the way technology changed the strategy and course of the war.

Trench warfare developed over the course of the war due to the conditions (mostly the issue of water and mud) and the battle strategies employed as various technology changed.
The following video is a compilation of images that depict the reality of trench warfare.

Shell Shock was a common response to the constant bombardment and firepower that soldiers faced. The following video records evidence of how shell shock actually affect the human nervous system to spontaneously send random messages all over the body.

This link will give you another re-enacted view of what trench warfare must have been like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhhjzR8syXc Class notes here