World War I-New Weapons of War
Shania Wendland, Marisa Schaldach, Jenna Von Ruden
Trench Warfare
- Over 200,000 Soldier Deaths occur
- New Tactics
- Disease and Infection became unbearable
- Use of many new weapons in fighting
Poison Gas
- Chemical Warfare
- Most feared
- Inflicted a long-drawn suffering
Tear Gas Grenades
- Used by French
Chlorine
- Used by Germany to inflict damage to Allied Lines
Phosgene and Mustard Gas
- Inflicts delayed effects
- Violent Blisters(internal & external)
4% of deaths occurred due to Poisonous Gases
Phosgene Gas
Mustard Gas Effects
Protection against Chemical Warfare
Tanks
- Produced by British in 1916
- At the end of WWI British and French troops gained a victory over Germans with the utilization of Tanks.
Guns, Rifles, Grenades
Machine Guns
- U.S.- Lewis Gun
- U.S.- Bolt Action
- Austria- Mannlicher-Carcano
- Germany- Mauser Gewehr
- Britain- Lee Enfield
- France- Lebel M1888
Hand Grenades
- stalemate of Trench Warfare
- Flamethrowers
Air Warfare
Advancements of the creation of Airplanes began.
Naval Warfare
Launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906
- Britain Advantage
Advancements
Advancements of arms, ammunition, telecommunications paved the road for more technological advances in the future including the production of railways.
Works Cited
- Notes
- Technology of WWI. N.d. Photograph. Google ImagesWeb. 22 Apr 2013. <https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gs_rn=9&gs_ri=psy-ab&tok=YlpxVv8Esf6j6qFKVkEFEw&cp=10&gs_id=21&xhr=t&q=tear gas grenade&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45512109,d.b2I&biw=988&bih=576&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=KFh1UdzIDabY2AXN4IGYCg