Bolt Action Rifles pistols
machine guns gardner machinge gun hotchkiss lewis gun maxim machine gun vickers browning
Artillery big bertha howitzer skoda 30.5 and mills bonb
tanks first tank made was called little willie char schneider mark 1 mark5 markVIII the whippet carro fiat tipo
Gas
Chlorine gas caused burning in the throat and chest pains death by suffocation con wind could cause thegas to kill your own troops
Mustard gas most deadly 12 hours to take effect. effects:blistering skin, vomiting sore eyes internal and external bleeding deat cand take up to 5 weeks
Submarines
little over 200 feet long and was less than 1000 tons
main reason costal operatins
weapons on subramines were torpedo
Aircrafts
Planes delivered bonbs spied on enemies fighter aircragts machine guns bombs sometimes cannons
Aeppelin airship used from bombing raids carrried machine guns and bombs easy to shoot
Misc...
bayonet-Knife attached to the end of a rifle used alot in trenches
smokeless gunowder
wireless communication
Trench Warfare
fighting lines of where troops are immune to enemy samll arms fire and some artillery
as a result there was slow wearing of enemies
soldiers suffered from shell shock mental breakdowns from heavy artillery
Hindenburg line
trench system in north eastern france by germans
long trenche used during world war 1
heavily fortified
U.S. home front
home place people in country helping
women at home
planting ictory gardens
took over jobs men would do
knited sock sand made clothes raised money help suppoert the men
navy recruted women in world war 1 desk jobs
caned and preserved foods for the war
government propaganda
committe fo public information in charge of propaganda
cpi issued pamphlets and films to start u pro war propaganda
also arganized thousand fo four hundred men talk about the war and strat surged of patriotism for helpping the war
conservation
gov used many different postersto resuade everyone to conserve food and meat
wilsons fourteen points
let know war ws for a moral cause
germany thaught that this would be the treaty
one
end secret treaties
two
freedom of the seas
three
free trade for all countries
four
disarmament
five
end to colonial claims
six
self-determination for all countries especially Russia
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