1 World War I C Name_________________________ Weapons & World War I

TANKS PLANES MACHINE GUNS POISON GAS TRENCH WARFARE

Stalemate

Western Front

War at Sea

WW1 Weapons

Machine Guns-What effect?

What Effects?

• Leads to industrialized death

• Leads to a stalemate

• Leads to new weapons being sought to end war

Gas-What effect?

Gas Burns

What Effects?

• Chlorine, Phosgene, Mustard

• Creates a moral dilemma in the war

• Kills and/or disfigures troops that come into contact

Tanks-What effect?

What Effects?

• Used to go over trenches and create forward advances

• Can also go over barbed wire and mines in no man’s land

Planes-What effect?

What Effects?

• At first used to only spy on enemy troops and lines

• Aerial battles evolve and eventually become forward weapons

• Red Baron

Trench Warfare-Why?

What Effects?

• Stalemate begins to create a trench culture

• Soldiers lived, ate, and rested in miles of trench networks that were developed

Big Bertha

Stalemate on the Western Front

What Effects? • Stalemate • Neither side has an advantage • Creates need to find better ways to advance

forward • Formation of “No Man’s Land” with lines of

barbed wire and landmines between trenches

• Western Front • Line of trenches along French, Belgian, German

border • Where most of the fighting takes place from 1914-

1918 • Formed because of a stalemate due to

industrialized weapons and pre-industrial tactics.

Battleships

U boats

Convoy System

What Effects?

• War at Sea

• Conflict in the Atlantic and North Sea

• German use of U-boats

• British use of battleships

• Allies use “Convoy System” to protect cargo and troop ships