Pre-war
1914
Outbreak of the war
1915
1916
1917
1918
End of the war
Post-war
Workers in the Skoda factory in Pilsen/ Plzeň, photo

Copyright: Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Wien
Partner: Museum of Military History

Aspect

The industrialised war

The First World War called for an enormous amount of material. The armies had to be equipped and fed. The battles would not have been possible without the manufacture on an industrial scale of arms and other strategic products. Only through the total mobilisation of all available resources was it possible to keep the huge war machinery going.