World War 1 New Technology

  • Trench Warfare

    Trench warfare, warfare in which opposing armed forces attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground. when the superior firepower of the defense compels the opposing forces to “dig in” so extensively as to sacrifice their mobility in order to gain protection.
  • Machine Guns

    The 1914 machine gun, usually positioned on a flat tripod, would require a gun crew of four to six operators. In theory they could fire 400-600 small-calibre rounds per minute, a figure that was to more than double by the war's end, with rounds fed via a fabric belt or a metal strip.
  • Tank

    Tanks in WW1 played an extremely important role as they increased mobility on the Western Front and eventually broke the stalemate of trench warfare developed one type of tank which saw combat in the war..
  • Gas Mask

    Gas Mask
    Gas masks used in World War One were made as a result of poison gas attacks that took the Allies in the trenches on the Western Front by surprise.