Used to bombard enemy trenches before attack

Mobile guns – could be wheeled easily from location to location

Many suffered from “shell-shock” from hours of continuous shelling

Rapid fire (400-500 bullets per minute)Allowed for massive losses for advancing troopsTrenches were built to avoid machine gunsTanks would soon limit the machine gun

Canada was equipped with this gunOriginally a sportsman gunFrequently jammed in the trenchesSoldiers would throw it away when they could

get their hands on a British gun

Sturdy, rarely jammed, and reliableAt 1st Sam Hughes (Canada’s Minister of

Militia) threatened court martial if a soldier lost their Ross Rifle

After mass complaints Ross Rifle is switched with the Lee Enfield

Detonated 2 ways: on impact or a timed fuseImportant in the war due to trenchesLobbed into the enemy’s trench

Considered an inhumane form of warfare

Tear Gas – made enemies eye tear up

Chlorine Gas – made it difficult to breath

Mustard Gas – caused the skin to blister

Had the ability to cut through barbed wireHad trouble moving through mud and

trenchesOften broke downImproved greatly by

the end of the war

A short tube which fired a shell directly on the enemy

Landed in the trenchEasy to carry, pick up, and move (and hide)

First used to find the enemy (surveillance)

Later used to attack enemy lines

Engineers develop an interrupter system to block gun from firing into propeller

Many began to use top-mounted gun

Inflatable airships used for scouting and bombing

Often used at Sea to sink enemy ships Germany had the Zeppelin – built extremely

wellBritain used smaller ones

US and Britain responsible for much research into the building of subs

Germany would utilize the sub the mostCalled U-Boats Used torpedoes Responsible

for mass sinking of Allied ships

Identify the weapon you think might have the biggest impact on WWI. Explain why.