Originally Posted by hillbillybear
Here are a couple exam questions that drove my students nuts on exams:


Why were the casualty rates so horrific in WWI?


Name three new technologies that affected the shaping of the battlefield and strategy in WWI. Discuss each in detail.


Tanks, nerve gas and machine guns?

The casualty rates were so high because there weren't any effective countermeasures to these new technologies. Everyone literally dug in and kept flogging each other.

**The above answers are all just guesses............which is how I survived my freshman year in college when I forgot to study for an exams. blush grin


Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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