Gas Masks After World War I: Chemical Warfare

Poison gases were used primarily used to demoralize, injure, and kill entrenched defenders. There were different types of poison gases like, Tear gas, Mustard gas, etc. These were very harsh killings in my opinion, because it lasted a while with pain then they were dead. These gases were traumatizing to the people they used the gas to. Theses people were scared to go into the rooms and didn’t know what was going to happen to them just like “The boy in the striped pajamas” and like “The Holocaust”. These people during the holocaust experimented on people for the purpose of mass murder which is killing more than one person. They used this “mass murder killing” for killing patients with mental and physical disabilities. The killing centers

In addition to new protection from trenches came new war technologies such as machine guns, artillery, barbed wire, and various machines. In 1914, the modern Gatling gun was perfected into a gas-powered, water cooled war machine that only needed two men to operate it. When airplanes were added into the mix of destruction, both sides hastily flew into the air to claim the skies. With the amount of planes from the German and Allied sides being sent up into the sky became what is now known as the Flying Circus. Then as if the new guns, wires, and death machines weren't enough, poison gas was created by the Germans but soon back fired. This is because gas can spread throughout the air very quickly, resulting in both sides having the defects from

Adopted by the German and allied armies, Phosgene was another gas that was used during World War 1. As a weapon, Phosgene would be more potent than Chlorine because it caused victims to cough less. Phosgene would often have delayed effects on victims. It would take 48 hours for a healthy soldier to be taken down after inhaling the gas. The white star mixture, which is a mixture of Chlorine and Phosgene, would commonly be used on the Somme. The contents of the Chlorine supplied the necessary vapers with which to carry the Phosgene.

World War I was made even worse by the work of industrial chemists. Soldiers from Ypres, Belgium would claim that a shimmering cloud appeared around their feet and a strange peppery smell in the air in 1917. This gave it its well-known name. Within a day, they have shown signs of severe itching that were caused by dreadful blisters and other wounds. Some stated to be coughing up body fluid. Near the end of the war, it instilled terror across the battlefield. Leaving up to 10,000 people dead and more injured. Mustard gas was created in 1822, but it wasn’t well-known as harmful till 1860.

1.5 million children dead all of them murdered at the hands of Nazi scientists and doctors. During WWII nazi scientists and doctors used jews, gypsies and disabled people for their medical experiments that they claimed were helping the Nazi cause. People were put through these experiments because they were impure and not a pureblood German. Throughout WWII, Nazi scientists and doctors experimented on thousands of concentration camp prisoners for the sake of science. Nazi’s experimented with the genetics of twins, hypothermia and the effects of mustard gas.

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In the article “How the Great War Shaped the World,” the author Jay Winter writes about the effects of World War One on the society in 1914 to 1918. The article states that Europeans still call it the Great War because it changed the nature of war itself. Civilian lives were not spared from military targets after bloody stalemates in 1914. Germany's submarines also risked the lives of innocent civilians, dragging the United States into the war. The war also caused the number of immigrants in America to decrease due to the increase of patriotism. By 1915, poison gas became a distinct tactic used in the war, becoming a widespread mass destruction method. At the end of the war, a peace treaty was signed. Some statements of the peace treaty include

Upon the battlefield of World War One, soldiers huddle in trenches, faces veiled behind gas masks. These bulky facial coverings were designed to protect the soldiers from deadly gases used by the enemy. The use of chemical agents in World War One led to the need for the production of better protection from the deadly effects of the agents. Chlorine gas could be dropped from cylinders above the victims, its high density causing it to flow downwards onto its unsuspecting foe (Fire 121). Also, the British Authorities struggled to decide whether or not to approve the use of gas for offensive use, and whether a large scale chemical war was something to be avoided at all costs (Girard 107).

During WWII, the Holocaust took place; meanwhile, over 62% of the 6 million people killed were killed from being gassed. The Germans were looking for a more efficient way to kill a mass amount of people and they could not stand the idea of having a gas chamber in a fixed location(Beer, "The Final Soultion"). Their want to kill more people led to the creation of gas vans. However, there were other ways to kill people by gas that were also very effective. By using gas vans the Einsatzgruppen realized that they could make the mass killings more secretive and efficient than any other form of a gassing death. The first use of gas vans was in Poland around the year 1939(Halbersztadt).

The First World War, while engulfing Europe with four years of death and destruction, also served as something of a testing ground, allowing nations to test and deploy the newest and most high tech weapons in their arsenals. It is from these experiences, on the bitter, mud drenched fields of Flanders, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere, that many technologies that shape the modern battlefield today, such as the air plane or the tank, were first put to use on a grand scale. It is here too, that another weapon was unleashed upon humanity for first time, but this one was deemed so sinister that the nations of the world near unanimously agreed to ban once the war ended. A weapon so awful that even today,

Chemical warfare was a major component of World War I. The use of poison gas was first used during this war. This new invention was easy to use with trench warfare because it could kill multiple numbers of soldiers at one time. The types of poison gas used were tear gas, chlorine gas, and mustard gas. Tear gas caused temporary blindness and serious irritation to the nose and throat of the victims (independent.co.uk). Chlorine gas causes a burning pain in the throat and eyes with a difficulty to breath (vlib.us). The symptoms of mustard gas are mustard colored blisters on your skin and inside of you if you inhale the gas (firstworldwar.com). These gases can be deadly. Poison gas changed warfare because it caused so many casualties. It stays

During World War 1 scientists discovered a process which involved taking the nitrogen from the air and turning it into usable ammonia. Most of the ammonia acquired by this process has been used as fertiliser. Upon evaporation, the ammonia proceeds to turning into acid rain. A few attempts have been made to control agricultural nitrogen emissions however, no steps have been taken to regulate agricultural ammonia emissions. Ammonia emissions also come from animal feeding operations. When the ammonia rises into the air and then falls back to the ground, it is broken into nitric and nitrogen acids which can kill plants and fish.

Poison gas caused excruciatingly painful deaths. One kind of gas used was chlorine gas, chlorine is a halogen, so when it was inhaled it would infiltrate the lungs and convert the moisture into hydrochloric acid. The worst poison gas however was the mustard gas, the main reason for this is that other poison gases could be shielded against by using a gas mask, however mustard gas did not cause asphyxiation or the lungs to be filled with acid, it instead caused severe burns on the skin or anywhere else it touched. Although chemical weapons caused less than 4% of all casualties, they were still the most feared weapon ever used in the war. The flamethrower was used and seen as an effective weapon as fire is something that as an evolutionary feature, humans are instinctively afraid of, therefore a flamethrower wielding soldier would be fighting with almost purely psychological warfare, almost, because there is a reason that humans are instinctively afraid of fire and that is because fire can cause extreme amounts of pain. Aside that, it could also be used to clear trenches rather effectively. The bayonet was a blade mounted on the front of a rifle. Some soldiers were trained for bayonet charges, sprinting with their faces appearing enraged and their lungs roaring, these charges rarely ended well but they made effective propaganda. The British army was trained to make thrusts with their bayonets and twist them, making the wound incredibly painful and extremely

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Garret Morgan is easily one of the greatest inventors of all time. Morgan was born on March 4, 1877, in Paris, Kentucky to two former slaves Sydney Morgan and Elizabeth Reed Morgan. Morgan left his home at the age of fourteen and ended up in Ohio, where began to work finding odd jobs till he was able to save up enough money and start a business of his own. Morgan opened his own tailoring shop where he fixed sewing machines, and he eventually expanded it to clothing made from the sewing machines he built. Garret Morgan loved working with his hands and experimenting with new machines and products. In 1912 Morgan developed the “safety hood” which would eventually be known as the gas mask, it had a hood with an insert for fresh air and an exit for exhaled air; it was also connected to a tube in the back, which was an open end that contained a water-soaked sponge, the sponge would filter out smoke and so fresh air could get in. Because Garret Morgan was African American, the gas mask was not widely accepted, particularly in the south. Garret had to hire a white male to pose as the “inventor” of the safety hood; he himself would act as a test dummy during the presentations of the product. This worked in Morgan’s favor the presentations skyrocketed the sales of the safety hood, especially among police and firefighters.