Chemical Warfare In WWI

The Sometimes Deadly Chlorine Chlorine is a yellowish-green poisonous gas with a very unpleasant and strong odor. (Appelman 516) It ranges from being used to kill in World War 1, to being used combined with sodium to make table salt. It can be a very dangerous element, but yet used for so many good things. Chlorine has a ton of history, multiple uses, and an interesting atomic structure.

Innovation is vital for success in a time of war. In the Great War, countries like

The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean provides a flashback to when humans first began using chemical warfare. The use of chemical warfare can be traced back to Ancient Greece. Kean talks about the Spartan’s attempts at surprising the Athenians with a stink bomb. Though it had failed, it marked the start of chemical warfare. Twenty-four hundred years later, chemical warfare still has little strategic value until World War I.

Poison gas or mustard gas was one of the most deadly forms of weapons ever used, this was the beginning of chemical warfare. Mustard gas would be tossed into trenches like a smoke bomb and effect the people in the vicinity. Everyone around the canister would be affected and begin gasping for air and begin forming welts on their skin. If the mustard gas was inhaled in large quantities, one could begin forming welts on their lungs and die from lack of good oxygen intake. “...extended exposure to the vapor could cause severe choking and under some exceptional circumstances even prove lethal.”

The gas could either be shot out of a gun or dropped out of a plane. It would be used mostly when there was no fighting going on. If the soldiers failed to put on their masks, the soldiers who breathed in the gas could easily die in an instant or become very ill and eventually die. People may have died fast because the gas contained Chlorine and Phosgene and (Mustard

Nationalism was a very profound in the beginning of the 20th century in Europe. This nationalism fueled many exaggerated reports on the state of rival countries. Due to these nationalist reports it can make a nation become alienated and wrongly dislike other countries. Nationalism in Europe assured its citizens that a war against them would mean total victory, which contributed to the rallying support of the European populous. These victorious militaristic ideas were fuelled by the fact that in the 19th century Europe had not had any large scale military defeat during most of the century.

The Vietnam War was a long war that was devastating to the United States as well as Vietnam. The war was a total disaster for the South Vietnamese and was also a political and social disaster for the United States. During this time, chemicals were used during times of war and were detrimental to the people on the receiving end. One instance of this was the United States’ use of Agent Orange in Vietnam. Agent Orange’s use by the United States affected Vietnam in a negative way economically, demographically, and ecologically.

At the beginning of the war, Jünger was excited to be fighting for his country, but by the end he admitted he tired of the war. When he first arrived, he was “enraptured by war” (Jünger, p. 5). The war would be a great adventure and Jünger and his fellow soldiers were excited to partake in the war. Even months later, after Jünger sustained his first injury and went home, he saw the loss of blood and lives during the war as a necessary way to protect his “beautiful country” (Jünger, p. 33). Jünger’s tone gradually changed throughout his war years, perhaps because death and destruction constantly surrounded him.

Although the time period of the Battles of Ypres span from 1914 to 1917, the battles were fought only for a few months at a time. Ypres was a town within a salient into the enemy territory, which meant that it was very vulnerable to attacks. It was a point Germany decided to “break through” to regain control of France. The Second Battle of Ypres, during April to May of 1915, was the first time chemical weapons were successfully launched against the enemy, killing many French troops in the trenches. The Battles of Ypres did not have a clear victory, and both sides lost many men and artillery, and eventually the offense was called off after an insignificant success in regaining some part of the

Although the time period of the Battles of Ypres span from 1914 to 1917, the battles were fought only for a few months at a time. Ypres was a town within a salient into the enemy territory, which meant that it was very vulnerable to attacks. It was a point Germany decided to “break through” to regain control of France. The Second Battle of Ypres, during April to May of 1915, was the first time chemical weapons were successfully launched against the enemy, killing many French troops in the trenches. The Battles of Ypres did not have a clear victory, and both sides lost many men and artillery, and eventually the offense was called off after an insignificant success in regaining some part of the

1 Diseases Today I want to tell you about the diseases in World War one. Many of those diseases led to the dead of the soldiers because they had little knowledge and medicine. The conditions in the trenches were horrible. Little foot and fresh water, living in wet trenches, no medical care were the cause of those diseases: Trench foot, trench fever, gas, trench mouth, venereal diseases... Soldiers were sick, hungry and were exposure to the elements of nature.

As the children fell asleep to their mothers singing voice, their fathers slept to the sound of firing guns. These were the realities during World War 1, a European battle that lasted 4 years. The war started in 1914 and was fought in central Europe it included countries like France, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Britain, Austria, Seria, US and Germany. The gruesome conditions were a cause for inevidetal deaths they used machinery fight in the war were tanks, airplanes, trenches, flame throwers and Macha gas. There were many reasons was to why World War 1 started such as Imperialism, Militarism and Nationalism, But the most supportive role in bringing WW1 is Imperialism.

When this agent has been unleashed into a highly populated area with personnel it can lead to major chaos trophic event with many casualties and injured personnel. Past history events have supported the fact that the use of sarin is a highly toxic agent to unleash into society CBRN Agent background “GB is a first generation nerve agent that was identified in 1938 as a potential chemical agent

World War I was a conflict fueled by territorial desires and nationalism. This sentiment is captured in Erich Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front. In the novel, the main characters, all young soldiers, come to understand that war is not glorious and that the people they are fighting are not their enemy. At the time, such ideas were dangerously anti-nationalist ones. Nationalism was a necessary component of World War I but was not, as is explored in Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, a doctrine held by all Europeans.

In the year 1914, there were over 38 million people who died in World War I. Militarism was one of the cause of world war 1 because it 's when a boy is born to be a soldier and that is how he is raised. Also nationalism because it 's when a boy is proud to go and fight in the war. As well as imperialism which is when a country has control over many different colonies. Militarism, nationalism and imperialism where the three main causes of world war 1. Militarism is an idea that a boy is born into a family that raises him as a soldier.