TECHNOLOGY DURING WORLD WAR II

INTRODUCTION

• Technology had a huge role in determining the outcome of the World War II.

• Most inventions were developed during the interwar years.

• Some previous ideas from the World War I were developed for WWII.

WEAPONERY

SHIPS

• There was no time to build new ones

• The old ones (U-Boat, Aircraft carriers etc.) were modified

• Had to avoid restrictions made by the Treaty of Versailles

• Very important for the war

• U-Boats played a significant role

U-BOAT- Used by Germans

- Undersea boat

- Snorkel added

JAPANESE WAR CARRIER „SHINANO”

- Largest aircraft carrier

- Destroyed by submarine

DEUTSCHLAND CLASS CRUISER

- Diesel engine

- Made to avoid the restrictions caused by

The Treaty Of Versaille

HOSPITAL SHIPS

- Hospitals on

water

AIRCRAFT

GLIDE BOMBS

MESSERSCHMITT ME 262- Was the first jet fighter

JET BOMBER ARADO 234

HELICOPTER FLETTNER 282

ROCKET POWERED FIGHTER

BOMBS

• Cluser bombs

• Blockbuster bombs

• Drum bombs

• Bunker bombs

INNOVATIONS

• Paratroopers

• Radio

• More bombs used

• Can’t use gas

• Sonar

• Flamethrowers used more

• New tactics: Blitzkrieg, propaganda, Japanese youth taught to be fearless, deception,

Kamikaze

NUCLEAR BOMB

- Manhattan Project

- Supported by Canada, the

United States and the Great

Britain

- 1942 – 1946

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

• Nuclear power and missiles were

used, modern concepts of covert and

special operations. Submarines and

tanks were also more heavily used.

Encryption codes for secret

communication became more

complex. Germany used the Blitzkrieg

fighting method.

• War of ideologies, such as Fascism

and Communism.

• Fought from lines of trenches and

supported by artillery and machine

guns, infantry assault, tanks, early

airplanes and poisonous gas. Mostly

static in nature, mobility was minimal.

• War between countries for acquiring

colonies or territory or resources.

THE COMPARISON OF TECHNOLOGY IN WW1

AND WW2

WW1 WW2