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New Weapons to WWI Tank Submarine Airplane Machine Gun
Chemical Weapons – Mustard Gas
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Tank not very useful Often stuck in deep mud
used as cover for advancing troops mobile artillery, but not very quick
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Submarine – U-Boat German advantage disrupted allied trade
Germans were sinking ships from North America because they were carrying supplies to troops angered the U.S. – sinking passenger ship: Lusitania
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Airplane Dogfights Dropping small artillery
Reconnaissance of enemy trenches
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Machine Gun most deadly of all the weapons
Rapid fire could kill without having to aim used to prevent the crossing of “no man’s land
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Chemical Weapons – Mustard Gas
most worrisome of all the weapons
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Chemical Weapons – Mustard Gas
Used to either wound or kill enemy troops typical wounds blindness severe burns on skin mental fatigue
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