World_War_1_Weapons

World War 1 Weapons Imagine a war so great and powerful that new weapons and ideas were created in order to fight it. This is exactly what took place during World War 1. Both sides of the war invented different types of weaponry and artillery. These weapons that were invented were never introduced to society before the war. The men going to war had no idea what the other side was going to use or not to use. The new weapons were machine guns, mortars, poison gases, tanks, airplanes, and u-boats. During the Great War there were several consequences of these new weapons. These consequences were increases in casualties, trench warfare, and massive land destructions. The most important new weapon of the war was the machine gun. The machine guns were the main reasons why trenches were built. The machine guns fired hundreds of times in one minute. Machine guns alone could wipe a thousand men. Another new weapon was the trench mortars. Trench mortars were simple weapons that fired heavy bombs at high angles, coming down on the enemy trenches. Another, more torturing new weapon was the poison gas. It was war, weapons, machine, new, guns, casualties, trenches, trench, mortars, men, warfare, consequences, caused, weapon, u-boats, three, great, airplanes, verdun, tanks, side, quote, poison, one, land, increases, going, fired, destructions, destroyed, artillery, about, windrow, suicide