Imagine a war so great and powerful that new weapons and ideas were created in order to fight it. This is exactly what took place during World War 1. Both sides of the war invented different types of weaponry and artillery. These weapons that were invented were never introduced to society before the war. The men going to war had no idea what the other side was going to use or not to use. The new weapons were machine guns, mortars, poison gases, tanks, airplanes, and u-boats. During the Great War there were several consequences of these new weapons. These consequences were increases in casualties, trench warfare, and massive land destructions.
The most important new weapon of the war was the machine gun. The machine guns were the main reasons why trenches were built. The machine guns fired hundreds of times in one minute. Machine guns alone could wipe a thousand men. Another new weapon was the trench mortars. Trench mortars were simple weapons that fired heavy bombs at high angles, coming down on the enemy trenches. Another, more torturing new weapon was the poison gas. It was first used by Germany 1915. These poison gases were either released from canisters that the wind penetrated into the trenches of the enemy, or they were fired into trenches in shells. A badly gassed soldier suffered through a long an agonizing death. The skin burned away in huge blisters, while his lungs and throat rotted. The poor men finally died form suffocation or he drowned in his own lungs, which were filled with fluids. Other new machines were tanks, airplanes, and u-boats. Tanks were heavy pieces of movable vehicles that destroyed anything or anyone in their paths. The British invented the tank and the airplane. Airplanes held a .
pilot, a gunner, and carried bombs so it could bomb the enemies. U-boats were under water boats that were mostly used for suicide missions. The suicide missions were when soldiers attacked their targets knowing that they were going to die.