New Technology of World War One

Brand New WWI Technology Bolt Action Rifle Zeppelins Planes Tanks Artillery Fire Submarine Chlorine Gas and Mustard GAs Mustard Gas

Most accurate firing rifle of the era Fires 15 rounds a minute Accuracy  could kill a person almost 1400 meters away French attached a bayonet to this weapon BOLT ACTION RIFLE

Needed between 4-6 men to man them in 1914 Had to be positioned on a flat surface to be used/overheated easily Fired rounds per minute Good as a defensive warfare technology MACHINE GUNS

Describe large calibre field guns These guns fired artillery shells which exploded upon impact Artillery shells were filled with shrapnel Needed 10 men to operate ARTILLERY FIRE

CHLORINE GAS Distinctive smell and color (yellow green cloud) Within seconds of inhaling the gas it destroyed the lungs causing a soldier to choke First used by the Germans at the Battle of Ypres

Used to pollute enemy trenches because the gas remained active in the soil for weeks Caused soldiers skin to blister(mustard-colored blisters), eyes to be sore, and vomiting. Soldiers would eventually die from internal and external bleeding from blisters 5 weeks to dies Very painful death for soldiers

Casualties From Gas - The Numbers Country/ Total Casualties/ Death Austria-Hungary: 100,000/ 3,000 British Empire: 188,7068/ 109 France: 190,000/ 8,000 Germany: 200,000 / 9,000 Italy: 60,000/ 4,627 Russia: 419,340/ 56,000 USA: 72,807/ 1,462 Others: 10,000/ 1,000

GAS MASKS In order to protect soldiers from gas attacks, gas masks were developed Gas masks became standard issued items to soldiers during World War I

Germany first developed the Zeppelins These airships weighed 12 tons and contained over 40,000 cubic feet of hydrogen Travelled at speeds of up to 136mph and heights of 4250 metres! They were used for air strikes Abandoned because they were highly explosive and easy targets of the enemy ZEPPELINS

The first planes were used for reconnaisance work As the war progressed airplanes were used to deliver explosives Pilots were even known to fight enemy aircraft in the air, in ‘dogfights’ to protect the men on the ground Early planes were known as flaming corpses This is a German Bi-plane called the Fokker This is a British plane called a Voisin PLANES

First tank was nicknamed Little Willy Used by the British at the battle of the Somme Used to offer protection to soldiers from machine gun fire Moved 2 mph Not a success for the Allies (could not cross enemy trenches)

Germans developed the u-boat (undersea boat) Used to conduct unrestricted submarine warfare (torpedo any ships the u-boats encountered In May of 1915, U-20 sank the liner RMS Lusitania

The weapons of WWI will cause a new kind of war to be fought. Soldiers will be forced to New weapons will cause war to have a high death rate