Weapons of ww1

By nick alicea

The rifle

• The main weapon used by British

soldiers in trenches. It hold 15 rounds

and a person can be killed within

1,400 meters.

Machine gun

• The Machine gun took 4-6 people to

work it and it had to be on a flat

surface and it had the power of 100

guns

Gases

• The Germans use gases to kill the men in the

trenches so they can get to the other side of the

battle field with out killing there own men.

• Mustard gas was odorless and you didn’t feel

the effects until hours later. Soldiers would die

or receive serious chemical burns inside and

outside of their body.

Tanks

• This was the first time that tanks

were used at the battle of Somme.

The tank need a crew of 3. the

fastest it can go was 3mph and it

could not go thought trenches

flamethowers

• The flamethrowers were use by

Germans in the early phases of ww1

which brought terror to French and

British solders.

zeppelin

• Was a air ship that was used in the

early parts of ww1 in bombing raids

by the Germans. They carried

machine and bombs. The zeppelin

was abandoned because they got

shot down easily.

Planes

• Planes were used all the time in WW1

and this was the first time planes

were used. They were used for

bombing runs, spying, and air

warfare. They were armed with

bombs and machine guns.

Submarines/U-boats

• Torpedoes were part of marine

warfare they were used by Germans

to blow up other ship.

• A U-boat launched a torpedo and

sunk the Lusitania. Leading America

into war.