Poison Gas
At this battle poison gas was introduced.
Ypres
Tanks broke the stalemate for this kind of warfare
Trench warfare
This British-American inventor created the Machine Gun
This Russian engineer invented modern fast loading artillery
Vladimir Baranovsky
This side fired more poison gas over the course of WW1
The allies/Entente
150 tonnes of this gas was released.
Chlorine Gas
Tanks had the side effect of providing this kind of advantage
Raising Morale
The Machine gun was invented in this year
1884
Fast loading artillery was invented in this year
1870
Artillery corps
The Germans deployed this much gas during WW1
68 000 Tonnes
Tanks were introduced in this year
1916
This system allowed for guns to reload automatically (you can explain it if you don't know the specific name)
Recoil Operated
Fast loading artillery was able to fire this new technology
This battle tactic resulted in large amounts of friendly fire
Creeping barrage
These two other gasses were used in following battles
Phosgene, Mustard
Tanks were easily counter by this kind of attack
Artillery fire
Gave the defenders a significant advantage
This percentage of casualties was caused by artillery WW1
75%
Severe psychological damage
The use of these gasses violated a treaty made in this year.
1899 (CE)
This nation used tanks for the first time in this battle
Britain, Battle of the Somme
The use of smokeless powder had these effects on firearms
Removed waste build up in the barrel, got rid of large white puff of smoke, created more pressure in the cartridge, allowing bullets to travel farther
This many shells were fired during WW1
A well trained artillery crew from this country could fire a peak of this many rounds per minute
Well trained French artillery crews could fire at up to 25 rounds per minute using the state of the art French 75