History First High school

Weapons during the First World War

WEAPONS INFORMATION
Trenches  Canals dug into the ground.
 Life was miserable.
 Rainstorms produced deep puddles
and thick mud.
 Sometimes removing dead bodies
from trenches was impossible.
 Lice and rats were common in
trenches.
New Weapons: Poison Gas  Burns, choke or burn the victims.
 A change in the direction of the wind
direction could blow the gas back
toward the troops who had launched
it.
Tanks  First used in the WW1
 They were introduced by the British.
 The problem was that they were too
slow.
Aircraft  Very useful during warfare
 Mechanics attached machine guns to
the airplanes.

Other weapons: Rapid-fire machine guns, high explosive shells (that had enormous destructive
power) grenades, trench clubs.