World War One Weapons

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World War One Weapons
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Bolt Action Rifle

• This rifle fired only one bullet at a time, then
  you were forced to reload.
• The Lee Enfield Rifle was used by the British
  army during World War One.
• Other bolt action rifles were used in France,
  Germany, Italy, U.S. Russia, Austria and Japan

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Smokeless Gunpowder

• Commanders had been complaining of the problems
  of giving orders on a smoky battlefield.
• The French army was the first to use smokeless
  gunpowder.
• This powder was more powerful then regular
  gunpowder giving it more accuracy up to a
  thousand yards.

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Machine Guns

• In 1884, Hiram Maxim invented the worlds first
  automatic portable machine gun.
• The maxim gun was adopted by the British army in
  1889. It could fire 400-600 rounds a minute.
  Each gun had the fire power for about 100 rifles.
• These machine guns used in 1914 required six
  people to work.

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Armored Vehicles

• Armored cars were first used by British.
• At the start of World War One Europe was using
  armored plated vehicles with machine guns or
  other artillery pieces.
• These cars were limited during trench warfare
  because of the uneven terrain.

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Artillery

• At the beginning of World War One the main weapon
  for the British army was the long barreled field
  gun.
• Howitzers used heavy shells with a short barrel
  for use undercover.
• The British army created heavy howitzers used for
  trench warfare. They could fire shells weighing
  over 900kg to a distance of 18km.

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• There were many changes in warfare weaponry in
  World War One. These changes revolutionized the
  way war is fought today. Without them we would
  still be fighting in very primitive ways.

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Made By
Brandon Filipiak
Clay Wagner
Amanda Swan
Kellie Williams