New Military Inventions — History 4, Lesson 10 Essay

This essay is about how machine guns and bombs, new military inventions shaped the outcome of a war and why.

Machine guns shaped the outcome of a war by killing the enemy fast.  Unlike a regular gun shooting one bullet at a time, the machine gun can shoot hundreds of rounds of ammunition in one minute.  Bombs are already dangerous but when shrapnel is added into the mix, it is twice as dangerous.  Shrapnel consists of nails, sharp stones, and other sharp things.  They are put into bombs, and when the bombs explode, the shrapnel flies everywhere, wounding the enemy’s soldiers.

All in all, new military inventions like machine guns and bombs greatly shaped the outcome of wars.

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