NEW WEAPONS

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NEW WEAPONS

• Heavy Artillery
• Machine Guns
• Tanks
• Gas

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Heavy Artillery

• Heavy artillery killed more soldiers than any
  other weapon.
• Very important in the Allies winning the war.

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Machine Guns

• Perhaps the most important defensive weapon in
  WWI.
• It prevented soldiers from advancing in the open.

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• MACHINE GUNS

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Tanks

• Provided a means of traversing No Mans Land.
• However were prone to artillery attack, were
  slow, and constantly broke down.

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• Tanks (5 min)

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Gas
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• There were several types of gas, all of them
  attacked the respitory system. Some also caused
  severe blistering of the skin.

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• Ypres Gas Attack (10 min)

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Grenades