Weapons: WWI 9th US History

Big Question: How did new technology and inventions change war? How did these weapons impact WWI?

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DIRECTIONS of TASK: 

Step #1 = Work your way through the WebQuest on Weapons of WWI...

Step #2 = Answer all of the questions on the WebQuest (use the text, pictures, and videos to help you)

In Class = 

Goal = Work through the Introduction Page, Task Page (this page), and the Process Page 

*Answer Questions #1-#6 through the reading and pictures...

HW = 

Goal = Finish the WebQuest, by working through the Evaluation Page, Conclusion Page, and if time the Teacher's Page for Extra Credit

*Answer Question #7-#9 

*Answer #10 BIG QUESTION at the End (Conclusion Page)...

#1 = Review Trench Warfare...

Question #1 = What were the Trench Defense System like? 3 pictures below...

#2 = Investigate each weapon of World War I...

Question #2 = How did industrialization alter artillery? 

•No longer short-distance cannons

           –Soldiers could only hunker down in their trenches and wait for the bombardments to end

           –Night and day

•Allied troops nicknamed the German’s howitzers as “Big Bertha”

           –The “Big Bertha” could hurl a 1,800 shell 75 miles

•Many soldiers suffered from “shell-shock”

Question #3 = How did machine guns transform warfare? 

•One of the deadliest weapons

•Heavy = work in teams, set-up to defend trenches

             -Some machine guns could spray 600 rounds of ammunition per minute

             -Charges = death

Question #4 = Why was poison gas feared? 

•Brand new weapon = most feared weapon 

•The Germans were the first to do it in 1915

               –Chlorine suffocated 2 French divisions in minutes

•Gas masks were issued to every soldier but were itchy, hot, and made breathing difficult

                -Mustard gas = burned skin and eyes

Question #5 = How did aerial tactics with airplanes change?

•The first airplanes of the war were wooden

• Fighting airplanes were called "dogfights"

                 –Germany’s finest pilot became known as the Red Baron

•By the end of the war, airplanes advanced to being able to drop bombs on targets

Question #6 = Why were tanks built?

•The British had the first tanks

                 –Not very effective at first (more of a shield for soldiers)

•Running on caterpillar treads and built out of steel, tanks pushed forward across No Man’s Land and the machine gun fire

Question #7 = What other weapons did soldiers use in the trenches?

•Even if soldiers survived the artillery, made it across No Man’s Land, escaped the barb wire, mines, and machine guns to the enemy’s trench...

•Fighting turned to hand-to-hand combat which brutally involved bayonets, trench knives, trench clubs, punches, kicks, biting, and rocks

Question #8 = If you were a soldier in WWI, which weapon would you least like to fight against? Why?

Question #9 = If you were a soldier in WWI, which weapon would you use? Why?  

#10 Big Question: How did new technology and inventions change war? How did these weapons impact WWI?

New technology from Industrialization was used to create weapons. These weapons changed war and the way WWI was fought because...

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Extra Credit: "How do you envision (see) warfare?" 

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If Call of Duty was to make a video game on World War I, what weapons would you put in this game? 

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