Weapons of WWI by Angiely Hernandez https://padlet.com/a_her0596/y0z462l3ojsu Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2018-04-24 17:22:41 UTC 2018-04-25 00:33:26 UTC hello@padlet.com Poison Gas e_arr4575 https://padlet.com/a_her0596/y0z462l3ojsu/wish/254946556 Summary: 
-They were primarily used to demoralize, injure, and kill entrenched defenders, against whom the indiscriminate and generally very slow-moving or static nature of gas clouds would be most effective

Impact on the war- The use of poison gas in WW1 was a very real fear. They made the troops wore gas mask because it was to dangerous.

Fact- The types of weapons employed ranged from disabling chemicals, such as tear gas , to lethal agents like phosgene  chlorine, and mustard gas 
]]> 2018-04-24 17:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/a_her0596/y0z462l3ojsu/wish/254946556 Machine Guns a_her0596 https://padlet.com/a_her0596/y0z462l3ojsu/wish/254946684 Summary:  Machine guns of all armies were largely of the heavy variety and decidedly ill-suited to portability for use by rapidly advancing infantry troops.  Each weighed somewhere in the 30kg-60kg range - often without their mountings, carriages and supplies.

Impact on the war:  The machines guns they weren't effective when armies were on the move. Because of the machine gun, warfare after WWI would focus on small unit tactics and using cover to evade enemy fire.

Fact:  Adoption and use of machine guns has been affected primarily by mechanical problems such as overheating, by their size and weight, and by problems of transport and ammunition supply. ]]> 2018-04-24 17:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/a_her0596/y0z462l3ojsu/wish/254946684 Tanks e_arr4575 https://padlet.com/a_her0596/y0z462l3ojsu/wish/254954211 Summary-
In World War 1 tanks  first appeared at the Battle of Flers--Courcelette in September 1916. It was the first time tanks had ever been used in a military conflict. 

Impact on the war: Tanks  in WWI played an extremely important role as they increased mobility on the Western Front and eventually broke the stalemate of trench warfare.

Fact: By 1918 Britain and France had produced 6,506 tanks between them. Germany had produced just 20. 



]]> 2018-04-24 17:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/a_her0596/y0z462l3ojsu/wish/254954211 Airplanes a_her0596 https://padlet.com/a_her0596/y0z462l3ojsu/wish/254957448 Summary:  Planes were utilized in air battles in Europe (The most famous axis pilot being the red baron). However, it wasn't American planes that were used by American pilots, rather the pilots used British and French planes, because production of war materials was haphazard at the onset of WWI.

Impact on the war:  the demands of war transformed the airplane into a weapon of death. Made of wood, canvas and wire, these early fighters took to the air filled with gasoline, ammunition and the likelihood that too steep a dive would rip the wings to shreds.
 
Fact:  World War I planes were widely used during the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme.]]> 2018-04-24 17:45:46 UTC https://padlet.com/a_her0596/y0z462l3ojsu/wish/254957448