SOC 248 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sexual Slavery, Kim Jong-Il, Acute Radiation Syndrome
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Possibility of weapons of mass destruction, the alqueda, democracy, terrorism. Agrarian limited war changed to modern, industrial, total war with rapid industrialization. The weapons changed, introducing the first battle of iron-clas ships, the first sinking of a ship by a submarine, the first use of aerial reconnaissance, the first use of a machine gun. Industrialization brought far deadlier weapons as well as faster, more efficient means of transportation of such weapons as well as soldiers. Charging shoulder to shoulder changed with such weapons and tactics shifted with it as well. During wwii when the entire cities of hiroshima and nagasaki in japan were largely destroyed, killing well over 100,000 with nuclear bombs made with phosphorus and napalm. It also resulted in long term burns and radiation poisoning. North korea as a reclusive state with little to lose, an unpredictable leader kim jung. Il (cid:449)ho (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)ues a (cid:396)ep(cid:396)essi(cid:448)e (cid:396)egi(cid:373)e, hea(cid:448)ily a(cid:396)(cid:373)ed (cid:449)ith the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld"s deadliest weapons.
