Industrialization will have a great impact on pre-WWI weapons development. Visit the websites I have provided below and answer the questions about new technology and weapons development in WWI. Download the following document and summarize information about each of the new weapons to be used in WWI.
Modern Tech-Weapons of WWI assignment
Machine Guns – Machine Guns
Maxim Guns – The Story of the Maxim Gun
1. What do you think will be the impact of Hiram Maxim’s new invention?
Hiram Maxim – Hiram Maxim
Lee Enfield Rifle – Lee Enfield Rifle
Mauser 98 Rifle – Mauser 98 Rifle
Springfield 03 Rifle – Springfield 03 Rifle
Flamethrowers – Flamethrowers
Large Artillery – Big Bertha / Paris Gun
Trench Mortars – Trench Mortars
Tanks – Battlefield debut of the Tank
Poison Gas – Poison Gas / Gas Attack, 1916 / Video Clip of Poison Gas attack in trenches
2. What were the different types of gas and their effect?
3. What were the drawbacks?
4. Who first used gas in war?
Airplanes – Birth of the Figher Plane / Airmen of the First World War / Aces of World War I
5. What were the contributions of these aerial pioneers?
a. Manfred von Richthofen / b. Rene Fonck / c. Edward Mannock / d. Eddie Rickenbacker e. Alexei Kazakov
Dreadnoughts – Dreadnoughts / HMS Dreadnought
Submarines – Submarines / Video clip of German Subs vs British Navy
David Fulton, Robert Bushnell, and John Holland – Holland and the Submarine
6. How did the work of Fulton, Bushnell, and Holland have an impact on weapons development for the arms race prior to WWI?
Grenades – Grenades of WWI