The War at Sea and in the Air
World war one was the air war
*Airplanes were just invented in 1908, so they were big once world war one started.
*Someone would fly the plane while someone else was in the back shooting the gun.
*Hot air balloons were used for spotting.
*"Dog Fights" - Combat between two planes.
* Ballon Busters: They would go around and blow up the spotting balloons, very dangerous because when you hit them you had to be out of the range of the explosion.
The war at sea
*The war at sea would go on for the entire period of the war, was dominated by the big battle ships.
*The dreadnought ships were the heaviest and most armed ship on the sea at the time.
*The british had the most powerful fleet with 19 dreadnoughts out at sea, this kept the germans at bay the whole war.
*Germans response to the dreadnoughts, The "U-Boats" - Submarines
*Germans stategy was to just attack everything that came into their waters.
*British technique to destroy the U-boats was depth charges.
The Battle of Jutland
* The battle took place in 1916
*Only battle at sea
*Germans failed and were stuck in their own port by the British navy
*Airplanes were just invented in 1908, so they were big once world war one started.
*Someone would fly the plane while someone else was in the back shooting the gun.
*Hot air balloons were used for spotting.
*"Dog Fights" - Combat between two planes.
* Ballon Busters: They would go around and blow up the spotting balloons, very dangerous because when you hit them you had to be out of the range of the explosion.
The war at sea
*The war at sea would go on for the entire period of the war, was dominated by the big battle ships.
*The dreadnought ships were the heaviest and most armed ship on the sea at the time.
*The british had the most powerful fleet with 19 dreadnoughts out at sea, this kept the germans at bay the whole war.
*Germans response to the dreadnoughts, The "U-Boats" - Submarines
*Germans stategy was to just attack everything that came into their waters.
*British technique to destroy the U-boats was depth charges.
The Battle of Jutland
* The battle took place in 1916
*Only battle at sea
*Germans failed and were stuck in their own port by the British navy