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WHY TANKS WERE DEVELOPED IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Tanks were first designed by the British army in the First World War, also know as the Great war, or the war to end all wars

They were made to end the stalemate in trench warfare, which had developed on the western front.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF TANKS

The initial vehicle that the British came up with was nicknamed the Little Willie, and was made and constructed by William Foster & co., and the first prototype was made in 1915.

Then in 1916, the prototype of a new tank, called the Mark One, was shown to the British on February 2ND.

Although the land ships committee originally said it was a land ship, they called it a tank to make sure it was kept a secret. They picked the name the tank, because the workers who made it in the factories called it "a tank" because it looked like a steel water tank.

The tank field was led by the British, but the French was not far behind them during the war, making and using their first tank in April of 1917.

Though the Germans usually led the field in producing the weapons development in the war, they focused on the anti-tank weapons instead, and only made 20 tanks of their own, called the A7V

THE TANKS FIRST PROBLEMS

The first tanks they had put into action were very unreliable, and broke down constantly. They were also hard to transport because of their large size and extreme weight.

THE TANKS MANY USES

The tanks were originally designed as an infantry support vehicle.

They were also used to cross German trenches to end the standoff

Later they learned that they could also lead the attacks, and have the infantry follow behind and clean everything up.

HOW THE GERMANS RESPONDED TO THE THREAT OF TANKS

The Germans originally made an elongated rifle that could fit a larger shot, and fired it at the tanks to try to destroy them.

They later made there own tanks, like the A7V, but they kinda sucked.

HOW LONG DID IT TAKE TO PRODUCE A TANK IN THE FACTORIES?

I did not find any websites that told me, but they did make 400 of them in a year and a-half, and if you do some math, then I'd say they could make about one tank per day, if they worked every day of the year, and it was one factory.

BATTLES THEY HELPED WIN

They were used in the Battle of Hamel, and it had made the Aussies trust tanks more, after there horrible experience at Bullecourt.

Its main combat debut was at the Battle of Amiens, where the Mark V tanks and the new british Whippets pushed through the German lines, and proved how powerful armored combat was.

RANDOM FACTS ON TANKS

The British made the most tanks in WW1, but not always the best ones.

They could not go faster than 4 miles per hour

By 1918, the Germans had made a total of 20 tanks, while the British and the French made a combined 6,506

INFO ON THE TANKS

Height: 8 ft 8 in

Length: 26 ft 5 in

Width: 12 ft 10 in

Weight: 29 tons

UK

A7V

Height: 10 ft 10 in

Length: 24 ft 1 in

Width: 10 ft

Weight: 33 tons

GERMANY

Renault FT

Height: 7 ft

Length: 16 ft 5 in

Width: 5 ft 9 in

Weight: 6.5 tons

FRANCE

Six Ton Tank M1917

Height: 7 ft 7 in

Length: 16 ft 5 in

Width: 5 ft 10.5 in

Weight: 7.25 tons

USA

Vezdekhod

Height: 4 ft 11 in

Length: 11 ft 9 in

Width: 6 ft 6 in

Weight: Unknown

USSR

Fiat 2000

Height: 12 ft 10 in

Length: 24 ft 3 in

Width: 10 ft 2 in

Weight: 40 tons

ITALY

CONCLUSION

In conclusion to our project, we would say tanks are one of the most important inventions of the war, and helped the Allies win.

Tanks are pretty cool.

Bibliography

wikipedia.org

ww1facts.net

Fiat 2000

Renault FT

A7V

Six-Ton Tank M1917

Vezdekhod

MARK V MALE

Mark V Male

German Anti-tank gun

British Mark Tank Crossing Trenches

GERMAN A7V

British Mark V Male Tank

The use and introduction of tanks in WW1

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