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The development of new technologies changed how events in World War would have played out. As new Tanks, Aircrafts, Tactics, and Bombs were constructed, military powers had to adjust to these continual changes to ensure that they would be the victor. The tank, together with the airplane, opened up modern warfare, which had been immobilized and stalemated by the use of rifled guns. It was developed by the British and first employed in World War I in the battle of Flers-Courcellette, on the Somme in September 1916, but it was used little by little, without any overriding strategy, and seemed a failure. In November, 1917, the tank achieved a major success at Cambrai, when 300 British tanks made a dawn attack on a 6-mi (9.7-km) front and shattered the German defenses. Before World War II tanks and tank tactics were greatly improved, and in the first campaign of that war German tank armies conquered the entire country of Poland in less than a month.
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