Unit 7.3 - WW1

"Its probably something dumb in the Balkans."

Creation Date: Fri Feb 28 2025

Publication Date: Mon Mar 17 2025

Weapons

• Mini-gun - Mowed down lots of solider with ease, counters large attack
• Mustard Gas - Dangerous Gas created in Germany. Killed enemy soldiers often burning their skin and coughing blood
  • Sabaton - Father (Person who invented mustard gas)
  • Sabaton - Attack of the Dead Men (Battle where Russians fought back against the effects)
• Airplane - Used for reconnaissance and skirmishes.
  • Sabaton - The Read Baron (German Fighter Ace)
• Trenches - Dug in shelters, well fortified positions.
• Tanks - Armored fighting vehicle, the equivalent of a movable bunker that can go over trenches
  • Sabaton - Steel Commanders (Tank warfare history)
• Flamethrower - Scared soldiers, tapped into fear of fire making them leave their defended positions and fall.
• Artillery - Long range weapons able to shoot beyond enemy lines
• U-boats - Underwater boats AKA submarines
• Battleships - Large boats filled with guns capable of bombing shores, expensive to operate

Total War

• ==All portions of nation allocated to war.==
• Many factories dedicated to the mass production of guns and equipment
• Large portions of civilian drafted with elaborate plan
  • Once mobilization starts, it can’t be stopped
• Both civilian and military targets considered

Fronts

Western Front

• ==More stalemates==
• More technological advancements in an attempt to gain upper hand
• Large casualties on both sides

Eastern Front

• ==Moving front==
• Central Powers having the advantage
• ==Fall of Russian government==

Alliances

Entente/Allies

• France
• UK
• Belgium
• Luxembourg
• Russia
• USA
• Italy

Central Powers

• German Empire
• Austria-Hungary
• Ottoman Empire

Treaty of Versailles - End of WW1

“This is not a lasing peace of a 20 year armistice” SABATON - Versailles

The treaty of Versailles placed heavy economic burden on the Central Powers making them pay back war reparations to the allied nations. Russia is in a civil war, The German Empire is turned into the weimar republic and forced to pay to france, Austria-Hungary collapses into multiple balkan states, the Ottoman Empire collapses and turns into modern day Turkey, the USA and UK basically leave, and Italy is left without what they were promised.

Summary

So a huge blood bath. Everyone had been stuck in trenches with not escape. Each side used old tatitcs that normally work in usual battle, but not now. New technology was developed in response and chaos was let loose