Changing Nature of War Flashcards
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Artillery Developments?
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- Metal Helmets, german had steel helmets that were lighter than the british and french helmets.
- Gomez gask, a rubber mask with a filter of active charcoal- german
- Flamethrowers, tanks, light machine guns, rifle grenades, mortars and light field
guns.
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Machine Guns?
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- Futuristic weapon unimaginable
- German MG 08 56kg, 600 rounds/minute
- Vickers Gun 33kg 500/rounds/minute
- Battle of Somme fired for 12 hours for 1 million rounds
- Lewis gun 11kg 550 rounds/minutes3 to 1 as the vickers gun. - most mobile machine gun
- Assault weapon, light weight carry it to the enemies and the other side
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Tanks?
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- Invented by the British
- released 1917
- The battle of the Ancre 1916 to show general public and people fighting at the front
- Mark 1 first tank to hit the battle field - 28 tonns 3.7 mph 8 crew
- Whippet 14 tons 8.3 mph 3 crew
- Germnas were slow to pick up on the tank development
- Sturmpanzerwagen 32 tons 8mph 16 crew
- Lacking materials due to Britains blockade of Germnay
- Used more British tanks then the ones they made themselves
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Planes?
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- 1909 Louis Blary set off to make histroy - Bleriot XI
- Dixie II - Sopwith Triplane 28th May 1916 187km - more visibility - can fly 7 times higher
- Flying in the war went from surveilling to airborne combat
- Royal Aircraft 22 november 1917 - adding guns to planes
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Gas?
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- 1914 - First use of chemicals in War was from French 1914 - tear gas
- Germans experimented with canisters containing gas August 1914
- Eastern front ZJan 1915 tear gas fired in shells - didn’t work
- Ypres 1915 chlorine Germans release 160 tons
- 5000 - 6000 casualties opening up a 4 mile line
- Turning point in military history
- Battle of Luce 1915 released poisonsnes gas
- Rags, hanckershiefs, socks soaked in bicarb soda or urine - to shield gas
- After the gas mask relativity few people died form gas attacks May 1915
- Germany 70,00 British and French 60,000 tons
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