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Innovations of WWI

Innovations of WWI. An Industrialized War. Weapons were produced with the same efficient methods of mass production that industrialists had applied to other products. The Machine Gun. One of the most important weapons of WWI Highly effective

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Innovations of WWI

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  1. Innovations of WWI

  2. An Industrialized War • Weapons were produced with the same efficient methods of mass production that industrialists had applied to other products

  3. The Machine Gun • One of the most important weapons of WWI • Highly effective • Land armies often found any advance difficult and costly

  4. Machine Guns

  5. Trench Warfare • Protection from machine gun fire and artillery bombardments • Armies dug large trenches where they might live for months

  6. British boys play acting Trench Warfare

  7. Tanks • Introduced by the British • An armored vehicle mounted with guns • Enabled troops to break though enemy lines

  8. Front view of a British tank

  9. Airplanes • Airplanes in the early 1900’s were neither very maneuverable nor very fast • They were used primarily for observing troop movements and for dropping explosives

  10. Gun on German Airplane Balloons were also used in WWI

  11. Submarines/U-boats • First used by the Germans • Did serious damage to Allied shipping

  12. Loading torpedoes into a French submarine

  13. Poison Gas • The Germans were the first to use it • The Allies quickly followed suit

  14. American wearing a Gas Mask British Horse wearing a Gas Mask

  15. American wearing a respirator Sounding the gong in preparation of a gas attack

  16. Casualties From Gas - The Numbers

  17. The Draft • Most European wars before this time had been fought by professional soldiers who worked for money and rations • WWI was fought by armies of drafted citizens • Those who could not fight worked at home to help the war effort • Many women participated in the war effort by working in factories • Governments made use of propaganda

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