World+war+1+btb

__**World War 1**__

World War 1 was the first major wars in known history, that civilized countries around the whole world fought. World War 1 was also the time period that advanced new weapons were invented. The machine gun is one such destructive weapon that can fire a couple hundred rounds very quickly. The germans were the first to invent poisonous gas, many people had not experienced that before and many soldiers on the allies side were terrified. Flame throwers also began to be invented for closer quarter fighting. Another new way of fighting is to dig trenches, and when given the order, were to charge the enemy in an attempt to gain the opposite side of the battlefield. This method of fighting was demoralizing to the troops, for when the rushed the enemy, the german machine guns would cut them to pieces. In the trenches the soldiers were cold, muddy, they couldn't eat clean food, and they couldn't even sleep because of so much noise.