We are doing class a little differently today Please find your laptop and sit at a place where you can see the board Think about it What are our some of our modern warfare weapons Essential Question ID: 333361
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WWI
Day 3
We are doing class a little differently today. Please find your laptop and sit at a place where you can see the board.Slide2
Think about it
What are our some of our modern warfare weapons?Slide3
Essential Question
How did technological advances of WWI impact the industrial world?Slide4
WWI was a bunch of Firsts
WWI FirstsSlide5
Trench Warfare
Heavy fighting took place along the Western Front.600 mile stretch from English Channel to Switzerland.
Trench Warfare: troops dug trenches along the front.
Very little ground was gained by either side in this way, and many were killed.Slide6
Automatic Machine Gun
Mounted gun that fires a rapid, continuous stream of bullets.Made it possible for a few gunners to mow down waves of soldiers.Slide7
Submarine
Also known as a “U Boat.”Underwater ship that can launch torpedoes, or guided underwater bombs.
Used by Germany to destroy Allied ships.
Subs attacks helped bring the U.S. into the war.Slide8
Airplane
One or two seat propeller plane equipped with machine gun or bombs.At first mainly used for observation.Later flying “aces” engaged in air combat.Slide9Slide10Slide11Slide12
The “Red Barron”
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von RichthofenAce Pilot
80 air victories
Richthofen was fatally wounded just after 11 a.m. on 21 April 1918Slide13Slide14
Hydrogen gas…is different from helium we use today
Blimp Fail (the Hindenburg) Slide15
Poison Gas, Gas Mask
Gases that cause choking, blinding, or sever skin blisters.Gas masks can protect soldiers from poison gas.
Lobbed into enemy trenches, killing or disabling troops.
Gas Masks lessened the importance of poison gas.Slide16Slide17
Tank
Armored vehicle that travels on a track and can cross many kinds of land.Protected advancing troops as they broke through enemy defenses.
Early tanks were slow and clumsy.Slide18Slide19
Tank Clip
TanksSlide20
Modern Tank
modern tankSlide21
Journal
How did technology change war?
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