https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp WW1 en-us 2017-03-23 15:30:11 UTC 2017-03-23 15:59:43 UTC hello@padlet.com myra_martinez https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162171132 Reliable rifle well-suited to the harsh conditions of trench warfare. A trained regular soldier could fire 15 rounds per minute with the weapon.]]> 2017-03-23 15:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162171132 myra_martinez https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162171507  Barbed wire became a deadly defensive weapon on the Western Front during the Great War. It snagged on equipment and clothing and slowed attackers, who were often prime targets for snipers as they desperately tried to disentangle themselves.]]> 2017-03-23 15:33:56 UTC https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162171507 myra_martinez https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162171855 Used to even deadlier effect across the expanses of no man's land that separated the two sides on the Western Front.]]> 2017-03-23 15:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162171855 myra_martinez https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162172146  The Germans began shelling the French capital with their long-range 'Paris Gun'. Made by Krupps, it had a 118-foot-long barrel and could fire a shell 25 miles into the air, targeting Paris from a site 74 miles away.]]> 2017-03-23 15:35:18 UTC https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162172146 myra_martinez https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162173267 The British also deployed chlorine gas, and later developments in the war included the deadlier phosgene and mustard gas, which blinded those it came in contact with.]]> 2017-03-23 15:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162173267 myra_martinez https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162173409 Wood-and-canvas aircraft, which they intended to use as aerial scouts, which allowed a machine gun mounted on a plane to fire without damaging the propeller.]]> 2017-03-23 15:38:23 UTC https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162173409 myra_martinez https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162179122 The tank was specifically developed to break the trench warfare stalemate – their armour would be impervious to machine gun fire, and their tracks would be able to cross trenches and barbed wire entanglements.]]> 2017-03-23 15:52:58 UTC https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162179122 myra_martinez https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162180159 There were just 20 of these airships in operation at any one time, but as they flew above the reach of British aircraft they bombed almost with impunity.]]> 2017-03-23 15:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162180159 myra_martinez https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162180820 Germany had 33 U-boats, or submarines, in operation in 1914. The German navy saw an opportunity to starve Britain.]]> 2017-03-23 15:56:43 UTC https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162180820 myra_martinez https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162181263 Britain developed the Q-ship – a merchant vessel with concealed guns.]]> 2017-03-23 15:57:38 UTC https://padlet.com/myra_martinez/lo0jj0ww4lmp/wish/162181263