Poison gas in World War I

people in the entire world were killed during the Holocaust.("The Holocaust: An Introductory History.") The incredible torture that the Jewish people faced was not only felt by them. The Nazis committed a few genocides during the same time as the Holocaust. The Nazis killed over three million Polish people and the same number of Russian Prisoners of War.(Wistrich, Robert S. Hitler and the Holocaust.) The Holocaust would not have happened if Germany would have won World War I. The massive…

World War I is something that fascinates a lot of people. However, most people tend to only think of the fighting that was happening during this time, or they will think about the weapons that are involved in the war. The living conditions of the soldiers had a great affect on them, just like the actual fighting did. There were many things that affected them in this like food quality, rats, privacy, and trench foot. These things could have almost the same impact on them as the fighting itself.…

December of 1915. The colourless gas had soldiers within the trenches violently suffocating. Hence, during the war in the trenches, Phosgene is responsible for about, “ 85% of all gas-related fatalities, in World War 1 resulted from phosgene and disphosgene, which were both used to fill artillery shells.”Along with chlorine the most commonly known poison gas is mustard gas. Likewise, it was introduced by the Germans in the Ypres trenches on July 12, 1917. Mustard gas is an irritant that would…

World War I brought great change to American society. It brought new stressors on societal norms, conventions, and expectations for the roles and responsibilities of women in all branches of the American public. In the later years of the 1800s and the beginning of the new century, women began to take on new roles outside the home and to step out of traditional norms of society’s expectations. One place that women stepped into new roles was as members of the Army Nurse Corps, a group of…

Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Genocide had come into effect only after world war one. In 1948 the United Nations declared genocide was a crime. There is eight stages of genocide: classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, extermination, and denial. Here are some examples of the eight stages of genocide; they are being distinguished by nationality, ethnic, race or…

Women in Conflict War had begun. The year was 1914 and World War One, described by Woodrow Wilson as the “war to end all wars,” erupted in Europe. This war was the very first in which women were allowed to join the armed forces. The United States of America quickly sent all of those willing to fight and later imposed the first ever draft across the entire nation. In addition, American men would not be the only ones on the battlefront of this catastrophic war. Women that lived once ordinary…

World War I was undoubtedly one of the most brutal, yet eye-opening wars fought in recent history. Fueled by fervent nationalism, distrust, and rivalry throughout Europe, countries were already taking sides and building armies far before the first shot was fired. From 1914 to 1918 countries and people fought to gain power and glory, but ended up fighting in vain to gain nothing but pain. Many young men were virtually forced to become pawns to solve the problems of a prior generation, enlisting…

powerful enough to lead countries often seem to start wars to resolve national disputes. Initially known as the Great War, World War I is one such war, which was initiated as the consequence of a conflict between the nations of Austria-Hungary and Serbia. And as the allies of the two countries got dragged into the conflict, it quickly escalated into a total war that was fought on a global scale…

aspect of winning a war. For example, the utilization of the infantry and the usage of propaganda in gaining a larger enlisting population for the infantry have always been fundamental to a battle plan. However, some aspects in how a war is conducted have actually evolved over time. In 1914, the tactic of trench warfare was heavily utilized during World War I where defensive fighting in entrenched positions was favored. This style of warfare was not always used to fight a war. In 1775, the…

and the Unit 731? Word Count Chinyu Liu Introduction: In World War II, Japanese and the Nazis were allies and both were once at the peak of its power during the war. Both countries went through similar process, similar ruling style, and both conducted human related experiment for its own purpose; the Nazi experiments and the Unit 731(Japan). The results of both countries’ experiment did helped in the upcoming future (after the war ends). There could be a possibility that the experiments…