Convoys

Allies organized convoys to overpower

the U-boats

These are groups of merchant ships protected by warships

Work Cited
Ellis, Elisabeth. Esler, Anthony.
World History: Connections to
Today. Upper Saddle River,

New Jersey: Pearson Prentice

Hall, 2005. Print.

WORLD WAR I
MODERN WARFARE

Automatic Machine
Gun

Mounted gun that fired a rapid and continuous stream of bullets and took out waves of
soldiers

Helped create a stalemate by making it too

hard to advance across no mans land

British used the automatic machine gun

Khalil Weathers

U-boats

Underwater ships guide underwater bombs

or launch torpedoes

Introduced at the First Battle of the Marne

The Allies spotted a gap between German

lines, attacked the gap and split the German
armies, driving them back

German submarines traveled the Atlantic

Damaged the Allies

U-boats sank merchant ships that were carrying vital supplies to Britain

Airplane

Brought America into the war

Equipped with machine guns

Airplanes were used as observation

Flew above the battlefield to see the enemys

plan

Poison Gas

Germany began using in 1915

Poison gas choked or blinded its victims or

caused agonizing burns and blisters

Soldiers were given gas masks

Deadly

Zeppelins

Germany began using in 1915 to bomb the English coast

A zeppelin is a large, gas-filled balloon