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Question 1:Describe the strengths and weaknesses of British tanks in World War One. Tanks were thought as secret weapons that would help the British break the stalemate, the deadlock that had prevented either side in the war to break through the other's trenches in the Western Front and help Britain win the war. The tanks were supposed to have special features to help break the stalemate, i.e. the ability to overcome and move barbed wire and armour that couldn't be pierced by machine guns, both big problems to the infantry and the main cause of the stalemate. Caterpillar tracks helped give the tank grip in the muddy, churned up fields in the western Front. These features were successful in test runs. The tactics used to deploy the tanks were that the tanks would go out first and would be used as 'shields' by the infantry. The idea was that the...

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