US History – Trench Warfare & New Military Technology of WWI

Download the following questions about Trench Warfare and Trench life, and use the following articles to answer.

Trench Warfare & New Military Technology of WWI Assignment (use this link) – google doc form

Trench Warfare Article (information that will help you answer the questions above)

Use the Website below for information on New Technology and Weapons of WWI.

Machine Guns – Machine Guns

Flamethrowers – Flamethrowers

Long Range Large Artillery – Paris Gun / Some good pictures on this link

Trench Mortars – Trench Mortars

Tanks – Battlefield debut of the Tank

Poison Gas – Poison Gas / Gas Attack, 1916

Airplanes – Birth of the Figther Plane / Airmen of the First World War / Aces of World War I (use this website to find your pilots…click their names on the chart)

Submarines -David Fulton, Robert Bushnell, and John Holland – Holland and the Submarine

Grenades – Grenades of WWI

Why WWI Sucked! (semi-humorous depiction of trench warfare)

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