Bell Ringer!!! Take out your WWI statistics handouts from yesterday. What does our acronym...

Bell Ringer!!! Take out your WWI statistics handouts from

yesterday.

What does our acronym “MAIN” stand for?

What countries are in the Triple Alliance?

What countries are in the Triple Entente?

New Weapons & Strategies of War

Objective: Analyze the role of new technologies and practices including

the use of poison gas, trench warfare, machine guns, airplanes,

submarines, and tanks.

Machine Guns Shoot 400-600 Bullets per minute

Very large and heavy

Could not be moved easily

Tanks Developed as a method to get over “No

Man’s Land”

They were unsuccessful during World War One

Poison Gas Very harsh weapon during this time

3 different kinds Mustard Chlorine Tear

Airplanes Multiple uses – Spy, Bomb, Deliver,

Transport, etc…

Were not made very well at the time

Overall unsuccessful in World War One

Artillery Field Guns Long Range weapon – Responsible for

most deaths during the war.

Extremely large

Submarines Underwater advantage!!

Very popular for the Germans

Also used torpedoes and top side guns

What can you prove?.... In your opinion, decide whether you

believe the use of poison gas was justified during World War I (Was it right to use it?).

How convincing can you be???????