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Why was the first world war referred to as the first modem industrial war?

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The first world war is referred as the first modern industrial war due to following reasons:

(i) The fighting involved the world's leading industrial nations such as England, Germany, France, etc.

(ii) They harnessed the vast powers of modem industry to inflict the greatest possible destruction on their enemies.

(iii) The war saw the use of machineguns, tanks, aircraft, chemical weapons etc., on a massive scale. These were all products of modern large-scale industry.