Weapons, Planes, and Ships:
Weapons:
Bayonets- a sword like stabbing blade that may be fixed to the muzzle of a rifle for use in hand to hand fighting
Flamethrowers- a weapon that squirts ignited fuel for several yards
Grenades- a small bomb thrown by hand or launched mechanically
Poison gas- poisonous gas or vapor, used to espically to disable an enemy in warefare
rifles- a gun.
tanks- and enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads.
machine guns- an automatic gun that fires bullets in rapid succession for as long as the trigger is pressed.
pistols- a small firearm designed to be held in one hand.
trench mortars-a light simple mortar designed to propel a bomb into enemy trenches.
MG 08 MASCHINEN GEWEHR- is a type of machine gun
daggers- little hand knives to stab with
WWI trench knife copy- knuckle duster knife
-they used gas masks to protect themselves from dangerous gasses.
Tear gas- stimulated the corneal nerves in the eyes to cause tears, pain, and even blindness but is not deadly. first introduced by the french in 1914. the Germans deployed these gasses by using hand grenades.
mustard gas- pure sulfur mustard's are colorless and viscous liquids at room temperature.
Chlorine Gas-
Phosgene gas-caused about 85% of the 100,000 deaths caused by chemical weapons
lewisite- was deadly like mustard gas but invisible. the war ended before it was available in a large enough quantity to be used in WWI.
Use of gas:
introduced in april 1915 to the war.
special gas companies were not allowed to call their new weapon gas, it was referred to as an accessory.
Ships:
the most famous one was "The Hood"
Armored cruisers- weighed about 10,000 tons, made to assist bigger battleships
Protected cruisers- made to guard trade routes, troop-ships, and outposts
submarines- posed a very serious threat even though they were fragile and could only dive for a few hours.
aircraft carriers- designed to carry planes across the ocean for fighting.
Planes:
Aircrafts- armed with machine guns; werent very effective. everybody used them.
Bomber planes- could hold two to three bombs each. they had to build a lot to take effect
types-aviatik d, junkers, fokker el, martinsyde g 100, curtiss
Airships:
later in war zeppelins were used by Germany to do most of the attacking, Germans would have huge fleets at night and attack London with them. they were used for attacking. the Hindenburg was one of the most famous ones.
The end of WWI:
Woodrow Wilson campaigned for a peaceful way to end the war. He tried to go to both sided to come up with something to end the war that they could both be okay with, but it didn't work.
The Armistice, on November 11th the leaders of both the sided got together in Ferdinand Foch's railway carriage headquarters at Compiegne. The Armistice was signed at 6am and went into effect 5 hours later.
The Border, the final Allied had began to push towards Germany's border on October 17th 1918. And then they began to collapse and so Turkey signed an armistice at the end of October and Austria-Hungary followed shortly after on November 3rd.
November 11th, the agreement was called the Treaty of Versailles. Germany had to stop all of its military actions and pay for the wars cost.
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