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World War I Weapons & Tactics

Explore the devastating weapons and strategies used in WWI, including trench warfare, tank production, infantry guns, poison gas, and eyewitness accounts. Learn about the aftermath of the war and the cultural shifts of the Roaring Twenties.

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World War I Weapons & Tactics

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  1. Bombing Parties As an attack or raid reached an enemy trench the grenadiers would be responsible for racing down the trench and throwing grenades into each dugout they passed: this invariably succeeded in purging dugouts of their human occupants in an attempt at surrender (often not accepted as they were promptly shot or stabbed). Jam-Tin Bombs So-named because they were literally made out of jam tins, each was packed with gun-cotton or dynamite, together with pieces of scrap metal. A length of fuse would project through the top of the tin, with each inch of fuse giving approximately 1.25 seconds delay.

  2. Digging Trenches

  3. “Little Willie” Tank Production 1916-18 This first tank was given the nickname 'Little Willie' (soon followed by 'Big Willie') Thirty-six tanks led the way in an attack at Flers.  Although the attack was itself successful - the sudden appearance of the new weapon stunned their German opponents. Weighing some 14 tons and bearing 12 feet long track frames, the tank could carry three people in cramped conditions.  Its top speed was three miles per hour on level ground, two miles per hour on rough terrain.

  4. Number 1 infantry Weapon U.S. Springfield German Mauser Austro-Hungarian Steyr-Mannlicher British Lee-Enfield Which gun belongs to which country? French Lebel French Berthier

  5. French 75 Gun

  6. Machine Guns

  7. Poison Gas Anonymous British eyewitness account of the German gas attack at Ypres on 22 April 1915 “Utterly unprepared for what was to come, the [French] divisions gazed for a short while spellbound at the strange phenomenon they saw coming slowly toward them. Like some liquid the heavy-coloured vapour poured relentlessly into the trenches, filled them, and passed on.”

  8. For a few seconds nothing happened; the sweet-smelling stuff merely tickled their nostrils; they failed to realize the danger.  Then, with inconceivable rapidity, the gas worked, and blind panic spread. Hundreds, after a dreadful fight for air, became unconscious and died where they lay - a death of hideous torture, with the frothing bubbles gurgling in their throats and the foul liquid welling up in their lungs.  With blackened faces and twisted limbs one by one they drowned - only that which drowned them came from inside and not from out.

  9. Others, staggering, falling, lurching on, and of their ignorance keeping pace with the gas, went back. A hail of rifle fire and shrapnel mowed them down, and the line was broken.  There was nothing on the British left - their flank was up in the air.  The northeast corner of the salient around Ypres had been pierced.  From in front of St. Julien away up north toward Boesinghe there was no one in front of the Germans.

  10. Casualties From Gas - The Numbers

  11. http://www.firstworldwar.com/index.htm

  12. After years of fighting, dying, starving, and suffering…

  13. The Soldiers were finally coming home!

  14. The years after the war are known as– the Twenties. A time of: Roaring Gangsters

  15. A time of: Baseball’s Greatest Players And Scandals

  16. A time of: Prohibition Bootleggers Speakeasies

  17. A time of: Jazz Carnivals Talking movies!

  18. A time of: Women’s Rights Flappers Oops, I’m 80 years off

  19. A time of: New Art Abstract: Surrealism Cubism Expressionism

  20. New Architecture Sky Scrapers Organic Environmental Vernacular A time of:

  21. New Wealth Automobiles Typewriters Cameras Refrigerators A time of:

  22. Consumption Advertisements: Coca Cola Campbell’s Soup Quaker Oats A time of:

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