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This 6 page paper discusses the development of the tank in Germany and the U.S. between the two world wars. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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trenches had given way to sleek panzers and powerful Pershings. This paper traces the evolution of this terrifying weapon from the end of the First World War through its deployment
in the Second, in both the United States and Germany. Discussion The ungainly tanks that came into play at the end of the "Great War" were designed with only one
purpose: "crossing the killing zone between trench lines and breaking into enemy defenses."1 No one involved with tanks at that time had considered a mission for them beyond that; or
perhaps its better to say the war ended before warfare specialists had been able to experiment further with the tanks.2 Murray points out that the development of tanks during
the interwar period did not follow the pattern generally thought. Common wisdom says that at the end of the First World War, Germany, stung by defeat, reeling under ghastly inflation
and unsettled conditions, devised a "revolutionary approach to war, one that emphasized maneuver and armored war as a means to escape the strategic and political consequences of their defeat in
1918."3 On the other hand, Britain and France (and by extension, the United States), retreated back into a sort of smug satisfaction and refused to learn the lessons of the
First World War; this, the mythology goes, explains why the Germans exhibited such striking superiority in the field in 1940. end note And this theory, attractive as it is, is
hogwash, because it is too narrowly focused. The deadly panzers that shocked the world during the Blitzkrieg did not develop in isolation, but were the result of interactions among politics,
the military and society.4 Germany has always had a military establishment that is skillful and dedicated; but at the end of World War I it was also tied closely to
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