Technology played a huge role in determining the outcome of World War II. Most inventions were developed during the interwar years, improving on ideas from World War I. Ships from World War I like U-boats and aircraft carriers were modified due to time constraints, and innovations included adding a snorkel to U-boats, building the largest aircraft carrier ever in the Japanese Shinano, and creating the Deutschland class cruiser to avoid restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. New weapons also emerged like jet and rocket powered aircraft, cluster bombs, advanced radio, and the Manhattan Project that developed the first nuclear bombs.

1. TECHNOLOGY DURING WORLD WAR II

2. 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.

3. WEAPONERY

4. 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

5. U-BOAT
- Used by Germans
- Undersea boat
- Snorkel added

6. JAPANESE WAR CARRIER „SHINANO”
- Largest aircraft carrier
- Destroyed by submarine

7. DEUTSCHLAND CLASS CRUISER
- Diesel engine
- Made to avoid the restrictions caused by
The Treaty Of Versaille

8. HOSPITAL SHIPS
- Hospitals on
water

9. AIRCRAFT

10. GLIDE BOMBS

11. MESSERSCHMITT ME 262
- Was the first jet fighter

12. JET BOMBER ARADO 234

13. HELICOPTER FLETTNER 282

14. ROCKET POWERED FIGHTER

15. BOMBS
• Cluser bombs
• Blockbuster bombs
• Drum bombs
• Bunker bombs

16. 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

17. NUCLEAR BOMB
- Manhattan Project
- Supported by Canada, the
United States and the Great
Britain
- 1942 – 1946
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

18. THE COMPARISON OF TECHNOLOGY IN WW1
AND WW2
WW1 WW2
• 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.