Book Description

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 89. Chapters: Armoured cars of World War I, Self-propelled artillery of World War I, Tanks of World War I, World War I armoured fighting vehicles of Italy, Tanks in the Soviet Union, Tanks in the United States, Tanks in the Japanese Army, Mark I tank, Tanks in World War I, Tank Mark VIII, A7V, Medium Mark A Whippet, Austin Armoured Car, Mark IV tank, Schneider CA1, Rolls-Royce Armoured Car, Davidson-Cadillac armored car, Flying Elephant, Comparison of World War I tanks, Mark IX tank, Medium Mark C, Lancia IZM, Medium Mark B, Ehrhardt E-V/4, Gun Carrier Mark I, K-Wagen, King Armored Car, Steam tank, Skeleton tank, Holt gas electric tank, List of armoured fighting vehicles of World War I, Lanchester 4x2 Armoured Car, Peugeot Armored Car, Sturmpanzerwagen Oberschlesien, Jeffery armored car, White armored car, Bussing A5P, Garford-Putilov Armoured Car, Female tank, Fiat-Omsky armoured car. Excerpt: Soviet BT-7 tanks on parade.This article deals with the history of tanks of the Soviet Union. World War I established the validity of the tank concept. After the war, many nations needed to have tanks, but only a few had the industrial resources to design and build them. During and after World War I, Britain and France were the intellectual leaders in tank design, with other countries generally following and adopting their designs. This early lead would be gradually lost during the course of the 1930s to the Soviet Union who with Germany began to design and build their own tanks. The Treaty of Versailles had severely limited Germany's industrial output. Therefore, to circumvent the treaty's restrictions, these industrial firms formed partnerships with the Soviet Union, to legally produce weapons and sell them, and along with other factors inadvertently built up a infrastructure to produce tanks which later made the famous T-34 and other...