1. Exploring war tactics
-WW1-

2. War on the land Tunneling Chemical warfare Machine guns Tanks
Field guns

3. Chemical warfare
Chemical warfare involved using toxic properties form chemicals as weapons
Germany was the first to use poison gas
The gas released would blind the solders and attacked their respiratory systems

4. Tanks were used for shelter and to drive through barbed wired fences
Ended trench warfare
First used during the Battle of the Somme to break through German lines

5. Machine guns
Troops lined trenches with hundreds of machine guns that shot rounds/minute
Very effective defense mechanism
Greatly impacted the way wars were fought
Forced leaders to develop new strategies

6. Tunneling
Tunneling was used to place mines beneath enemy defensive positions and explode the section when time to do so
Military employed specialist miners to dig tunnels under No Mans Land

7. War in the air
Dirigibles (air ships)
planes

8. Dirigibles (air ships)
Developed in 1800’s
Were giant hydrogen gas filled inflatable airships
Used by Italy, France, and Germany
Used for scouting an bombing missions

9. Planes First used to scout enemy positions
Many deaths dues to training and mechanical failure
Pilots threw grenades or shot at enemy planes
Eventually, guns were mounted to either side and were used in aerial dogfights

10. War at sea
U-Boats (Submarines)
Q-ships

11. U-boats (submarines)
Germany used U-boats the most
U-Boats were armed with technology that could sing large ships
They disrupted British shipping
Could travel underwater without being tracked until allies created listening devices to locate them

12. Q-Ships
Were heavily armed merchant ships containing weaponry, designed to lure submarines into open surface
This gave the ships open fire to destroy the submarines
In WW1, they were used by the British Royal Navy and the German Kaiserliche Marine

13. Experience
I cannot begin to imagine how the experience of fighting in the war was, as observers we can only read into it and look at pictures. Our teachers teach us about the horrible factors that every soldier went through but that will never be close to knowing how life was at war.