1. WWI Project Weapons of War & Trench Warfare
By Shelby Powers

2. Weapons Rifle Machine Gun Gas Pistol Bayonets Zeppelin Tank Planes
Torpedoes
Grenades

3. Which weapon was most commonly used in WWI?

4. Rifle Advantages -Most widely used Disadvantages
-1,400 meters was average range
-Could be operated by one soldier
Disadvantages
-Accuracy was only 600 meters
-Had to take time to refill it

5. Machine Gun Advantages Disadvantages -Ammunition was heavy
-Kill many people at once
-Long range
-Other countries had to make new fighting strategies
Disadvantages
-Ammunition was heavy
-Gun itself was bigger and heavier
-Inaccurate compared to rifle
-Often got overheated
-Took 2-3 people to move and fire
*French-worst
*Germans-best

6. Bayonets
Disadvantages
-Not everyone was well trained with the bayonet
-Risk getting shot
Advantages
-New bayonets were produced enabling soldiers to shoot with bayonet still in place
-Defensive weapon
-Used with close contact fighting
-Used for food

7. Gas Disadvantages -Gas masks Advantage -Killed many people at once
-Had to carry around
-Ran out fast
*First used by the French

8. Grenades Advantages -Killed people in large amounts Disadvantages
-Could be thrown into an exact location
Disadvantages
-Tiring to carry around
-Ran out quickly
*How did it work?

9. Torpedoes Used by submarines Germans used them
Used to blow up ships from America-Britain

10. Zeppelin Air ship (Blimp) Rigid so it could be bigger Powerful engines
Metal
Gasbags with helium
Carried weapons
Abandoned quickly

11. Planes Advantage -Weapons could be delivered fast to the soldiers
-Spied on other people
Disadvantage
-Could be shot down
- “Dogfights” (fighter planes)

12. Tank Used for the first time in WWI Needed 3 people Maximum Speed?
3 mph!
Couldn’t cross
trenches
New tanks were made toward end of the war

13. Trench Warfare What is it?
-warfare in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from a relatively permanent system of trenches protected by barbed-wire entanglement.
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14. Combat in which each side has a system of protective trenches

15. Trench – top view

16. Problems in the Trenches
Rat problems (1 pair = 900 offspring)
Smell of rotting bodies
Trench fever caused by lice
Death
Trench Foot
Frogs
Many more

17. The End! Sources http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/rifles.htm
The End!