E6.+Compare+major+forms+of+twentieth+century+warfare

__The Great War (WWI)__ __Technologies:__ (industrial societies gave way for new and better weapons) __[|Trench Warfare] __
 * Major Forms of Twentieth century Warfare**
 * [|Alliances] which backed up allied countries in war.
 * Advanced Technologies [[image:http://www.blockaderunnerantiques.com/images/60728-004-bcf9187d.jpg align="right"]]
 * Nationalism
 * Industrialization
 * National rivalries
 * Full blown total war
 * Propoganda
 * New war tactics
 * Barbed wire proved to effectively frustrate the advance of soldiers in no mans land.
 * Machine guns were developed and used to a greater extent than they had been in previous wars.
 * Poisonous gasses and chemicals such as mustard gas.
 * Tanks and airplanes
 * The Trenches were brutal-wet, cold. waist-deep mud, gluttonous lice and corpse fed rats in the trenches.
 * No mans land: the area between the trenches where soldiers would get torn apart by rifle men in the trenches.
 * Trench warfare was main form of fighting in WWI.

__Submarine Warfare__
 * Underwater / aquatic fighting
 * New military technology used for the first time in WWI
 * The Germans unrestricted submarine warfare (using submarines against neutral merchant and passenger ships like the Lusitania) was a decisive factor for U.S. intervention in WWI
 * Helped sway American public opinion on the war
 * Used by Germany again in WWII (Unterseeboote or "U-boats") in attempts to cut off Britain's vital imports (failed because Britain was able to crack Germany's secret code)

__[|U.S. Civil War]__
 * Sea Blockades: northern U.S. regions would cut off trade between Britain and the the south in hopes of preventing cotton trade to hurt the south economy
 * Conventional Warfare: a form of warfare conducted by using conventional military weapons and battlefield tactics between two or more states in open confrontation.
 * Unconventional Warfare: the opposite of conventional warfare. Where conventional warfare is used to reduce an opponent's military capability, unconventional warfare is an attempt to achieve military victory through acquiescence, capitulation, or clandestine support for one side of an existing conflict.

__World War II__
 * Nuclear Warfare (Atomic Warfare) : a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weapons are used. Compared to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare is vastly more destructive in range and extent of damage. First used when the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (Aug. 6, 1945).
 * [[image:250px-Nagasakibomb.jpg width="199" height="237" align="right" caption="Atomic bomb at Nagasaki"]]
 * Industrial Warfare: is a period in the history of warfare ranging roughly from the early Nineteenth Century and the start of the industrial revolution to the beginning of the Atomic Age, which saw the rise of nation-states, capable of creating and equipping large armies and navies through the process of industrialization. Mostly used during WWI.
 * Aircraft: Planes were used as an effective weapon for the first time in WWII. THe Germans had the initial air advantage, and they used their [|Luftwaffe] planes to quickly overrun France, and then apply their "blitz" warfare on british cities.
 * Tanks: also used effectively for the first time on a large scale in WWII by both the allies and the Axis powers.

__Cold War__
 * Started with the difference in political views between U.S and Russia
 * Russian Warsaw Pact
 * United States NATO
 * Nuclear Arms Race: Russia and The United States tried to fight eachother to power by amassing nuclear weapons and the technologies to deploy them against eachother. The tension around the world was incredible, but there was never any bloodshed.
 * The Cold War was fought for geopolitical supremacy.
 * Ended when the Soviet Union collapsed and after the reunification of Berlin.

__Guerrilla Warfare__
 * term used to describe the irregular warfare techniques used by smaller more loosely put together armies on larger, more organized, slower moving armies.
 * Guerrilla warfare was made well known mostly in the Vietnam War, in which the Viet Cong, who knew the terrain better, were able to were able to use the element of surprise to ambush and booby-trap American troops.
 * Guerrilla warfare has also been extensively used in Iraqi insurgency, as well as in WWII, with resistance groups towards the Nazis.
 * Chinese communists also used guerilla operations when being attacked by Japan in 1937 at the start of WWII.

__Global Terrorism__
 * Practiced throughout history, but attained greatest impact in the modern world of rapid technological advances in transportation, communications, and weaponry.
 * The practice of terrorism has been transformed by international television and radio coverage of terroist acts and events.
 * One of the greatest terrorist attacks in history was on New York and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001.

__War in Iraq and Afghanistan__
 * Chemical warfare: warfare and associated military operations involving the employment of lethal and incapacitating munitions and agents, typically poisons, contaminants, and irritants.
 * Electronic Warfare: the military use of electronics to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use and to protect friendly use of electromagnetic radiation equipment.

Created by Bobby Ferrar, Ross Warren, and Hailey Lindsey Edited by: Michael Byrne and Abby Aldridge: Good job, I just added some facts to WWII, added Geurilla warfare, and some things on the Cold War. I also added some links. Melissa Roetker: Nice work! Technically 9/11/2001 is not 20th century, but I left it in. :)