Changes in Military Technology: WW I to WW II
Changes in Military Technology: WWI – WWII
Static vs. Mobile Warfare
• The First World War was a mostly STATIC (motionless) war
– focused on defence, trench warfare, ‘digging-in’, little land lost or won
– first truly ‘mechanized war’ with tanks, airplanes, submarines
• The Second World War was a MOBILE (moving) war
– focused on offence, moving forces (tanks, airplanes, boats), ‘Blitzkrieg’ tactics (‘lightning war’)
– technology’s ‘big leap’
|Criteria: |WWI |WWII |
|Soldiers |- walked many km’s per day |- drove trucks, motorcycles, jeeps |
|Airplanes |- fly at 190 km /hour |- fly at 640 km/hour (jet-powered) |
| |stay aloft for 1 1/2 hours |- maximum range = 800 km |
| |- max range = 140 km (approx.) |- used to surprise enemy |
| |- used for recon. and later dog-fights |- helped soften up defences |
| | |- dog-fights |
|Tanks |- used with troops, slow |- much faster, more reliable, used in tank units (no troops) |
| |- unreliable (often broke down) |- burst through weak points |
|Radar/Sonar |- N/A |- used to warn against bombing raids or wolf packs (subs) |
|Weapons |- machine guns, rifles, bayonets, poison gas, artillery |- machine guns, guns, rifles, atomic bombs, artillery |
|Communications |- radio, carrier pigeons |- Cryptologists needed to make and break enemy codes |
The Early War (Sept. 1939 – Aug. 1940)
• Hitler’s new tactics allowed him to crush Poland in (4) weeks!
• Next, the powerful German forces overran Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and the Netherlands
• Hitler then turns to France, and defeats them in ________________.
• In Aug. 1940, the French and British forces evacuate France at the port of Dunkirk (‘Miracle at Dunkirk’)– 300,000 troops and their supplies escape safely to Britain
• Hitler is the unofficial master of Europe
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