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It was the first war of the twentieth century and the first conflict in a state of total war - one in which a nation mobilizes all its resources to make combat possible.
In World War I, technological evolution reached a level never seen before. One example of this is the tank. An ingenuity capable of moving over the roughest terrain and trenching trenches and barbed wire.
And more:
- Naval artillery was also widely used during the conflict.
- The machine gun was responsible for a number of casualties even unimaginable in World War I.
- Torpedoes were used during the conflict to shoot down warships.
- Armored vehicles as well as submersibles were being refined during the conflict.
- The first models of submarines presented, respectively, low speed and small depth diving. Even combat strategies have been refined.
- In World War I chemical weapons accounted for about 100,000 of the 10 million combatants killed. Ie 1% of the total