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New technology 1 By Magnus and Alexander, 3.L
Weapons During WW1 a variety of weapons were used
but especially two weapons were commonly
used, it was the rifle and the machine gun. The
rifle were the main weapon of the British army
the rifle could shoot 15 rounds a minute and
hit targets more than 1400 metres away. The
machine gun were an extremely effective
weapon even though it had to be managed by
4-‐6 people it had the same power as 100 guns.
The reason why the machinegun was to effective was because of the trenches, because when
the enemy came rushing towards you in large numbers it was easy to kill a large number of
men with due to it’s massive gun power and ability to shoot many rounds in a minute.
Gas The killing capacity of gas in WW1 was limited, with only four
percent of combat deaths caused by gas. It was not as big a
factor as it was in WW2.
The reason the killing percentage is so low is also that people
developed defense mechanisms (the gasmask).
Lethal agents like phosgene and chlorine made tear gas and the
severe mustard gas. It was mainly uset to kill the opponents in
the trenches. They would spray gas in the trenches and people
would drop like flies.
More than 9 million soldiers died in the Great War of 1914 -‐ 1918
Communications Four main communication tools were used during WW1.
• Telephones were a relatively new invention and that
meant that in order to make the telephone work wires
had to be placed in the trenches to communicate and
the wires had to stay intact for it to work.
• Radios were rapidly used because the “Morse-‐code”
made it easy for soldiers to communicate without
revealing their whereabouts. The problem was the
limited range it had which meant soldiers could loose their signal in the heat of the trench
war.
• Trained pigeons were used to deliver messages to different parts of the camps. They use
their homing instincts to find their way and were a important key to communication if the
technology failed.
• During WW1 they also used visual communication. The so-‐called paraffin lamp was used
to send Morse-‐codes through light.
Sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_during_World_War_I http://www.historyonthenet.com/ww1/weapons.htm http://www.ehow.com/list_7612127_types-‐communication-‐during-‐wwi.html
THE GREAT WAR
TECHNOLOGY ADVANCEMENTS By Jakob Søgaard Nielsen & Nicklas Hesselbæk
Plenty of things happened in the
Great War, and we commonly agree
that most of them were horrible
actions. So is there
anything good about
the war? Well, it is
rare that, for an
instance, technology
develops as fast as it
does under a war. If
you want a
competitive edge,
you got to have the
latest technology or
even develop your own.
But it is not always that the
technology invented in the military
stays in the military. Surprisingly
many things have been invented for
military use, and then later on found
their ways into our civilian lives.
Things like the GPS, microwaves and
even the computer got invented
through the military, as a
competitive edge over the enemy.
The stalemate of the trench warfare
WW1 created the need and
development of tanks. The tank
could sustain the rifle and
machinegun artillery coming from
the trenches and therefore more
easily make advancements through
no-‐man’s-‐land. The first tank ever,
called the British Mark I, was
designed in 1915 and went into use
for the first time in September 1916.
Germany had great success with U-‐
boats; they used them to shoot down
ships carrying food supplies from
the British army. During the Great
War, Germany built 360 U-‐boats,
responsible for sinking over 11
million tons of allied shipping.
The aeroplane had just started to
come into use as a tool of warfare at
the breakout of the Great War.
Before the Great War, the Germans
had used Zeppelins, giant inflated
balloons, frequently as bombers. 70
different types of planes were used
in the Great War. Different types of
planes were used for different
purposes such as fighters, bombers
and ground-‐attack planes.
Things invented under the Great War
• Tanks
• Flamethrowers
• Poison gas
• Aircraft carriers
• Hydrophones
• Interrupter gear
External links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techn
ology_during_World_War_I
http://www.shmoop.com/wwi/scie
nce-‐technology.html
http://ncpedia.org/wwi-‐technology-‐
and-‐weapons-‐war
Sources:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/318
82/12-‐technological-‐advancements-‐
world-‐war-‐i
http://ww1facts.net/war-‐at-‐
sea/ww1-‐submarines/
http://ww1facts.net/war-‐in-‐the-‐
air/ww1-‐planes/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviati
on_in_World_War_I
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Jll9_EiyA
Propaganda - what is it?
Propaganda is the art of twisting
information to support a certain
opinion or cause.
The word propaganda has its roots in the Latin
word propagare, which means to spread, to
propagate. The full meaning of the word can
be translated to “that which is to be
propagated/spread”.
An example of propaganda that was used in
the Great Britain in WW1, was to get the
public, and especially young men able to fight,
to fight for their country, by appealing to their
honour and sense of duty to their country.
This was
achieved by
slogans such as
“Fall In –
answer now in
your country’s
hour of need”
and “England
expects every
man to do his
duty – join the
army today”.
Later during the
war, when
there were no more young able-bodied men
left to recruit, the army started changing their
propaganda, in order to influence another
group of people in the country. The posters
now said “Get a move on old man!” and was
designed to appeal to the honour and sense of
duty in the older generation, that had not
been recruited the first time around.
Propaganda can be very effective if the ones
using it knows which buttons to push to get
the right reaction from the recipients.
The British Propaganda Bureau, set up in
WW1, and had the purpose of releasing pro-
British material such as flyers and newspapers
to allied and neutral countries, to create a
positive picture of the British forces
and government during WW1.
Women in WW1 Written by: Karna Brogaard and Sofie Mathilde Bach
Women in the workforce
Women’s status changed radically during WW1. The men were away as soldiers who had to train and fight on the battlefield. So women had to take over many of the jobs which the men usually occupied. That meant that women got into the workforce.
Domestic service becomes irrelevant.
Before WW1 everybody who could afford it had one or more domestic servants. The war changed that, drastically. Women wanted to be more self-independent so the domestic servants became unnecessary.
Was it equality?
Women got factory work, but they only got paid half what men in the same occupation were paid. This inequality started the fight for
equality between the genders. In 1918, a small percentage of the women were allowed to vote to the election, due to the lack of men, but it was not many women who qualified.
Women after WW1
WW1 gave women the hopes of getting something more than what they had, and after the war women started demonstrating for the right to be equal to men, not below them. Women demanded more equality.
Sources:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z9bf9j6
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/women_employment_01.shtml
Relevant link:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/document_packs/women.htm
Facts about the women in WW1:
- Woman earned half of what men did in the same job.
- Two mill. women replaced men between 1914-1918
- In 1918 women over 30 were allowed to vote.
- Not until 1928 women over the age of 21 were allowed to vote
HUMAN AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES DURING WW1By Tobias and Jonas
What du you think happens to a society, if 10 million men and boys didn’t return from war? And the ones who do survive have experienced psychic terror. When some-‐thing so powerful and meaningless destroys a whole society, the people who survive will be left beaten on the ground. This is what happened after the Great War.
During the Great War people died everywhere. The social consequences therefore took a major part in the later history in the world. The upris-‐ing moral and social world before the Great War suddenly didn’t meant anything. From a time where the grass wasn’t greener on the other side to a time where no grass would grow a lot of peoples sight upon hu-‐mans changed. A great example of how people described this trans-‐formation is the following; The Great War is described as a violent revolu-‐tion where the social structure was torn up by roots, shaken and put back in place again.
The casualties during the Great War indicate a black page in history. Nearly 11 million young
men where killed during the war, but for those who wasn't had to learn to live and accept the thought of what the human race was capable of. Everything they knew was suddenly changed. The consequences for the soldiers who lived were so rough that they now are referred to as “The Lost Generation”. Author George Orwells succeeds in taking the halo of
the science and progressions and instead blame them for the consequences the society faced. Because of the science and progressions it all turned out to be the biggest massacre in history where the science basically led to
bombers and poisoned gas. Soldiers were left alone with the memories of how their friends possibly died and that is thoughts they have to accept for the rest of their life. They will never have a normal life like they did before the war where everything was fine.
Years later the world had changed. The writers started to write about the world’s troubles.
There was no joy left in the world. Everything turned to the worse and had to lead to another World War.
Wounded soldiers Germany: 4,2 million Russia: 4,9 million United States: 402 thousands Italy: 947 thousands France: 4,2 million United Kingdom: 1,6 million
Links:
Casualties:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties
Social Consequences:
Article: “Urkatastrofen, der ændrede verden” by Henrik Jensen
The Lost Generation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Generation
World War 1 today
By: Mai Rishøj, Christina Bak, Camilla Lundholm
The Menin Gate Memorial to the
Missing is located in Ypres, Belgium.
The memorial is a war memorial and
is dedicated to the Britain
Commonwealth soldiers who were
killed during WW1. The memorial is
located at the eastern exit of the
town. The memorial marks the
starting point for one of the main
roads out of the town that led allied
soldiers to the front line.
The Menin Gate Memorial was
unveiled on July 24th.
Each night at 8 pm the traffic is
stopped at the Menin Gate while
members of the local Fire Brigade
sound the Last Post in the roadway
under the Memorial's arches.
WW1 centenary:
http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/re
membrance/ww1-‐centenary
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-‐
28632223
A candle-lit vigil was held at Westminster Abbey
A candle-‐lit vigil at Westminster
Abbey and a “lights-‐out” event have
concluded a day of ceremonies
marking 100 years since Britain
entered World War One.
The time war was declared in 1914,
hundred years later people were
invited to turn off their lights for an
hour.
90.000 of the Britain soldiers have never been found or identified
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