how did the arms race effect ww1?(fuse2)?

Question

sorry i ment the world not ww1

Answer 1

WWI employed the use of a lot new things - tanks, military aircraft, and a working submarine were the main ones.

But the aircraft didn't make a whole lot of difference because the air war in WWI was insignificant; it was little more than a bunch of rich kids flying up into the air and killing each other.

Tanks weren't even really all that important, because the tactics on either side were absolutely terrible - rush a a fortified position, get slaughtered, retreat, repeat.

Even the sea war - the theatre that the UK dominated wasn't important; there were very few naval battles. While the U-boat was a bit of a terror, it wasn't nearly as effective as it would be in WWII because it couldn't dive very far at all.

WWI influenced tactics much more than technology; but it was the tactics changes that forced the technological ones.

The arms race leading up to WWI didn't really affect anything because the UK was gunning for Germany anyway and vice versa. WWI was more political than any other war this century, excluding possibly Vietnam and the current Iraq war.

The machine gun and new artillery tactics had been in use about 15 or 16 years prior to WWI. The machine gun, iirc, was invented in 1898 by the American Hiram Maxim when he was in Africa and was being employed with great zeal in the British campaigns on that continent throughout the early 20th century.

Chemical warfare had been around for centuries, as had biological warfare (which hadn't been used since the American colonial era so far as I know of).

The arms race leading up to WWI was also mostly making guns and ammunition. The only major "accomplishments" were the tank, adapting a machinegun to not blow the rotors off of your plane.

Unfortunately, this really didn't have much influence on the world stage after WWI other than indicating that trench warfare's a pretty awful way to die.

Answer 2

Every war creates an arms race. WW1 proved to bring about many fundamental changes in warfare. New weapons introduced include:

Machine guns
Tanks
Military aircraft
Submarines
Grenades
Motorized vehicles

Artillary was used on a new massive scale, leading to greatly increased casualty levels.

Horses were replaced by vehicles after the war.

Jutland was the last major ship-to-ship sea battle, after that carrier-based aircraft became the favored weapon.

Answer 3

The "arms race", as in the Cold War, came AFTER World War 1 and World War 2 (within reason). Thus, it cannot have had any effect.

Answer 4

It has calmed conflict between the main important of countries and maximum probable stalled yet another international conflict, through assumption of jointly certain Destruction (if a significant conflict erupts, absolutely everyone dies and absolutely everyone loses). yet this would not outweigh the fees...nuclear palms stockpiles have been increasing at alarming expenditures and have saved our international on the threshold of destruction! you are able to not hug your toddlers with nuclear palms.