1. New Weapons
1915

2. Heavy Artillery The most popular weapon of the generals
Enormous power and fired large shells.
These shells churned the land in France into a sea of mud.

3. Shell size

4. Machine Gun
The “Vickers” machine gun could fire 600 bullets per minute.
Germans could mow down the enemy.

5. The Tank Armor-plated tractor (British), 6km per hour.
Armed with both Cannons and machine guns.

6. Close Range weapons
Bayonettes – long knives fixed to the end of rifles.
Grenades – the British used the pineapple shaped Mills Bomb, while the Germans used a stick-shaped grenade know as “potato-mashers”.

7. Close-Range weapons

8. Gas Weapons
Gas weapons were effective at first, but gas mask soon made the gas ineffective.