Industra-What?The Great War!!

Well well, my brothas(as my teacher would say at school), we learned quite a lot about how the Industrial Revolution effected the first World War. To start if off The IR(Industrial Revolution), which really started around the late 1800's, is a time when factories and machinery were being made. Inventions like the Cotton Gin and steam powered engines were being invented and made production of a lot of item a lot quicker.This in the face of it made thousands of people lose their old jobs and forced them to work in the factories. This not only included the "man of the house" or "Alpha Male" (or however you want to call it), but the whole family too. It was really quite said because whole cities would like a black dot from space because of how much smog there was from the factories. Amongst these huge varieties of items being massed produced included heavy artillery for wars. Nobody has really used heavy artillery in wars before because it had been quite peaceful for awhile. That is until political junkies decided to shoot a governor of some country and then a war broke out. Back then wars were meant to shoot for pride with muskets and swords and you would only get one shot until you had to reload. But with Machine guns, grenades and biological warfare, you better hope that you were in a trench(pretty much tunnels where soldiers hid in and prayed for their lives while the enemy shot). Quite a crazy thing huh? Well if your more interested about the IR then go to http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.06.x.html
or if the Industrial Revolution bored the hell out of you and you could care less about and want to know more about the violence(World War 1) got to
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa01