1910s War & Battles History Guesser

What war & battles looked like in the 1910s

The First World War gives this decade its look: zigzag trenches, shell-torn mud, barbed wire and steel helmets.

Early tanks and biplanes are strong tells, and uniforms have already turned to drab khaki and field grey.

1910s moments in the game

• Mutineers Seize Wuchang's Arsenal1911
• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand1914
• Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip1914
• Ruins of the Ypres Cloth Hall1915
• The RMS Lusitania Torpedoed Off Old Head of Kinsale1915
• Easter Rising at the General Post Office1916
• Detonation of the Lochnagar Mine1916
• Charge at the Battle of Aqaba1917
• General Allenby Enters Jerusalem on Foot1917
• Alcock and Brown's Transatlantic Landing1919

Dating a war & battles scene

Weapons

Spears and shields are ancient or medieval; pikes and early guns 1500–1700; neat ranks of muskets 1700–1850; machine guns and barbed wire from 1914.

Uniforms

Bright coats and tall hats mean the age of muskets. Khaki and field grey arrive around 1900–1915; camouflage patterns are mostly after 1940.

Fortifications

Tall thin stone walls are medieval. Low angled star forts answer cannon from the 1500s. Concrete bunkers belong to the 20th century.

Machines

Horses and wooden ships before 1850; ironclads and railways after; tanks from 1916, aircraft overhead from the First World War onward.

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