World War I New Weaponry and New Tactics

1. Naval Warfare

1.1. Battleships

1.1.1. Used by the British.

1.1.2. Formed barricades to prevent Germany from restocking supplies.

1.2. Submarines.

1.2.1. Used to counter battleships.

1.2.2. Torpedoes were used as offense.

2. Trench warfare

2.1. War of attrition

2.1.1. Each side digs trenches and mounts attacks on each other.

2.1.2. Lasts for months.

2.2. No man's land

2.2.1. Area between trenches.

2.2.2. Soldiers caught in no man's land were vulnerable to machine gun fire.

2.3. Barbed wire

2.3.1. Used to defend trenches.

3. Overall effects

3.1. More casualties.

3.2. Longer-lasting conflicts.

3.3. Larger financial costs.

4. Chemical weapons

4.1. Tear gas

4.1.1. Nonfatal.

4.1.2. Used early on in the war.

4.2. Poison gas.

4.2.1. Fatal.

4.2.2. Chemicals such as chlorine and phosgene were deployed.

5. New weapons

5.1. Machine Guns

5.1.1. Automatic firearms.

5.1.2. Mows down enemies with rapid-fire shots.

5.2. Rifles

5.2.1. Improvements in range.

5.3. Airplanes

5.3.1. Used for reconnaissance.

5.3.2. Aerial dogfights.