World Wars Of The 20th Century

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defeat German forces numbering about 2.5 million.

Army organization for all the belligerents remained the same as it had been
throughout the 19th century. They all had similar infantry and cavalry
divisions, artillery brigades, engineering companies, supply units, and
medical units.

The advances in technology that had been made since the American Civil War
were not sufficient to tip the balance either way. Both sides made use of
airplanes, tanks, radio, machine guns, and other inventions. The newness of
these technologies meant that they had to be adapted to wartime use on a
trial-and-error basis. Many inventions were developed for commercial use,
such as the telephone, radio, and internal-combustion engine, and were only
gradually adapted for use in warfare. It was not until World War II that
full advantage was taken of the technologies of mechanized warfare.

The interwar period, from 1918 to 1939, was marked by a feeling of
revulsion to all war on the part of most of the ...

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