WWI Weapons

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WWI Weapons
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Machine Gun

• Invented by US 1862 for Civil War
• Took 4-6 men to operate
• Very Heavy
• Fired 400-600 rounds
• Most devastating weapon WWI

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Tank

• Invented by British
• Get through No Mans Land
• Only went 3 mph
• Made of Steel
• Becomes a natural shield for troops to walk behind

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Bayonets

• Bayonne, France in 1600s
• Knife end of rifle
• Germans made it serrated.

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Cannons

• British
• Get ground mobile cannons during WWI
• Germans make Big Bertha named after a wife
• -Weighed 175 tons, heavy
• -Flipped when fired so put on railroad track
• -Major destruction!

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Flame Thrower

• German
• Shoots Fire
• There was a small portable model. Sometimes the
  container holding kerosene would leak causing
  holder to catch fire.
• Second one was better and shot longer and
  further.
• Used a lot of fuel!

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Gases

• French first to use tear gas in war.
• Chemical gases were used by Germans
• 3 Main Types
• Chlorine Gas
• Suffocates you-shuts down lungs and throat.
• B. Phosgene
• Similar to chlorine but choke to death on own
  mucus-usually die in 2 days.
• C. Mustard
• An irritant which blisters you internally and
  externally.
• D. Gas masks are invented during WWI.

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Effect?

• War of Attrition
• -you wear down the enemy physically and mentally
• Shell Shock
• -psychological damage from war
• Invention of prosthetics (fake limbs)

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Planes

• 1904 Wright Brothers, The Kitty Hawk, North
  Carolina
• Made wood and canvas
• Planes had to get low to ground to drop bomb
• Very dangerous
• Used mainly for supplies
• By end of war used more for bombing

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The Red Baron!

• Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May
  1892 21 April 1918) was a German fighter pilot
  known as the "Red Baron". He was the most
  successful flying ace during World War I, being
  officially credited with 80 confirmed air combat
  victories.

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Snoopy The Red Baron Song!

• Snoopy and the Red Baron
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vrNremK0cBEgfeatur
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