Sources:

http://www.history.com/this-dayin-history/germans-introducepoison-gas
http://www.history.com/news/lond
ons-world-war-i-zeppelin-terror
http://www.history.com/this-dayin-history/germans-unleash-uboats
http://www.history.com/this-dayin-history/british-naval-convoysystem-introduced
http://www.sparknotes.com/histor
y/european/ww1/section5.rhtml

Poison Gas
Poison gas was introduced into the war on
April 22, 1915, when the Germans
devastated the allied troops. During the
attack, the Germans began with their usual
artillery bombardment. Following
immediately after was the poison gas that
was carried by wind across no-mans land
that sent the allied troops into disarray.
This new way of attacking the enemy
without direct confrontation became a
standard for the rest of the war.

WWI
Modern
Warfare
Created by
Kevin Curran

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Zeppelin

At the time of its creation, the zeppelin was the

largest airborne vehicle ever created. It was
used by the Germans to sneak into the London
airspace to bomb the city. The massive vehicle
could travel at about 85 mph and carry two tons
of explosives.

U-Boats
A U-boat was generally 214 feet long with the
capacity to carry 35 men, 12 torpedoes and
long distance underwater travel. It was
unleashed by the Germans in 1917 and
allowed for secretly moving through long
distances underwater.

Automatic Machine
Guns
Automatic machine guns quickly became a
game changer in the first world war. They
were used by both the axis powers and the
allies. A single machine gun on the
battlefield could be the difference between
a victory and a defeat. The machine guns
used at this time usually took a few men to
operate. One fed the belt into the gun,
another aimed and fired the gun, and
another provided cooling agents, usually
water, to the gun to prevent it from
overheating.

After the devastating attacks from the German Uboats, the British forces needed to develop a way to
counter the perfect stealth machine. Their solution
was the convoy system. This allowed for ten to fifty
merchant ships to be escorted by a large force of
naval ships. These ships included a cruiser, six
destroyers, eleven armed trawlers, and a pair of
torpedo boats. The introduction of this system
allowed for the British to finally see a decline in Uboat damage.

Airplane

Airplanes at the time were nowhere near as advanced as

the ones that we have today. They barely had enough lift
to carry a single pilot. At the beginning of the war, they
were only used for reconnaissance, meaning that they
spied on the enemy forces. These reconnaissance plains
aided the French and British forces in many of their
battles. It was only later that machine guns became
advanced enough to be placed on an airplane.