AMSCO: 7.3 Questions and Answers
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What were some of the methods governments used to fight World War I? ✔✔- *Total war*
- Governments set up planning boards that set production quotas, price and wage controls, and
- Governments censored media and imprisoned those who spoke out against the war effort
- *Propaganda*
- Governments invested in army and navy recruitment campaigns
- Russian government created all-female battalion as propaganda to shame men into continuing
the rationing of food and other supplies
to fight
Conscription ✔✔Compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.
Trench warfare ✔✔A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.
Poison gas ✔✔Introduced by the Germans and was used by both sides during the war; caused vomiting, blindness, and suffocation 1 / 2
Machine guns ✔✔These weapons fire a very fast stream of bullets for a long time (500-600 bullets/min)
Submarines ✔✔- U-boats, Germans used them most effectively against the British navy
- Wreaked havoc on shipping lanes of the Atlantic Ocean
Airplanes ✔✔A new technology in WWI used for reconnaissance (spying on enemy lines) then later for fighting and bombing.
Tanks ✔✔- Heavy armored vehicle which could travel over barbed wire and across enemy trenches
- Protected troops as they moved across wide areas
- Able to fire at enemies
Stalemate ✔✔A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible
U-boat ✔✔German submarine
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