New Technology

of

World War One1914 - 1918

Brand New WWITechnology

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 400-600 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 encounteredIn 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