Extra Credit Blog

Europe's industrialized militarism was one of the major factors in the cause of World War I. The vast new advancement in warfare made Europe's soldiers hungry for a higher reputation in their community. They even wore their uniforms in public to show the people in their city who shows the most pride and have people look at them with high importance. Each countries military become more and more advanced and each country planned when they were going to attack. As all of them were so incentive to attack first because of their brilliant surprises, more than 10 million soldiers died in World War I. Over 20 million wounded. The reason for these horrible numbers is because of the new military technology that both sides of the war so gladly used. Some brutal weapons that were used were submarines, tanks, airplanes, poison gas, machine guns, and barbed wire. All of these weapons had never been seen or used before in any type of war before this. Because these weapons were so massive and destructing, there was an extremely abundant amount of them. Furthermore, the anticipation of wanting to attack on other countries made a huge impact on the reason World War I started.