History A-Level
Technological impact on tactics
What Technological impact on tactics means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Technological impact on tactics
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Machine guns increased defensive firepower, chlorine gas was first used at Ypres in 1915, tanks appeared at the Somme in 1916, fuse 106 improved shell reliability and the creeping barrage coordinated artillery and infantry.
Topics that use Technological impact on tactics
- Paper 3, Option 35.2: The British experience of warfare, c1790–1918 - 4 Trench warfare on the Western Front, 1914–18 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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