Poison gas in World War I

extent did military technology develop during the course of World War One and how did this affect warfare? World War One, known as ‘The Great War,’ lasted from 1914-1918 and was a time of great technological growth in military technology. During the course of World War One, the inclusion of fighter aircraft, chemical weaponry and armoured tanks resulted in dramatic changes to military warfare. Fighter aircraft affected the way the war was fought due to the large role they played in late WW1…

Most popular images of World War I show soldiers in muddy trenches and dugouts, living miserably until the next attack. Technological developments in engineering, chemistry, and optics had produced weapons deadlier than anything before. The power of defensive weapons made winning the war on the western front all but impossible for either side. Airplanes, products of the new technology, were primarily made of canvas, wood, and wire. At first they were used only to observe enemy troops. As their…

Wilfred Owen’s, “Dulce Et Decorum Est,” is arguably the greatest anti-war poem. It was composed near the end of the First World War by Owen who had actually experienced the horrors of the trenches. Owen gives readers the reality behind the wartime recruiting phrases, “it is sweet and fitting to die for your country,” as he records a friend’s death during a gas attack. This is a First World War poem, the poem that most brilliantly, most accurately, most informatively sums up the horrors, the…

World War I World War I was a gruesome war that lasted a little over 4 years. The war started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914. This caused a chain reaction that entangled international alliances and caused the major powers to be at war in just a couple of weeks. This was one of the causes of the war that started rebellion and eventually lead to the splitting of two separate powers, or groups. The two powers…

Austria-Hungarian throne. With the assassination of their Archduke, the Austria-Hungary had the excuse to strike Serbia and one of many reasons that sparked the war which Europe was already inflamed by other causes that lead to the Great War. Nationalism, Imperialism, Alliances and militarism were the other reasons that drove Europe into war. For that reasons, all those…

it soon followed. Those who did not fall ran trying to abandon the clouds of smoke, but this was no regular smoke (Kennedy 53). It was chlorine gas that German forces used to initiate large-scale chemical warfare during World War I at the Second Battle of Ypres, which affected the use of chemical weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. World War I began in Ypres on October 7, 1914, when German forces troops entered…

World War 1 World War 1 began in July 1914, and ended November 11, 1918. Over sixty five million men from thirty countries fought in World War 1 (randomhistory.com). Known as one of the worst, yet most influential wars ever fought, World War 1 left a stain on the world that ceases to leave. Approximately over one-sixth of the soldiers that fought, died. (randomhistory.com) There are thousands of cemeteries in multiple countries built to commemorate the dead from World War 1 (ww1cemetaries.com)…

Mustard Gas, in World War I, was called the King of Battle Gases because it caused more battle causalities, as in injuries that took them out of the war and some deaths, than all of the other chemical agents used in that Great War (Everts, n.d.). This synthetic agent had an innocent beginning but rapidly became something the world rallied around to ban due to its harmful effects. In 1886 Victor Meyer first discovered the harmful effects of (ClCH2CH2)2S or what would later become known as Mustard…

front” movie and he is clearly a director that studied world war I very well as details ranging from extremely important to small minor details were included in the movie. The filming brilliantly captured the aspect of World War I and war in general. All the elements of the trenches were illustrated: the sand bags and trenches being in a curved shape like, huge rats crawling over and eating the unburied dead, the deep mud, the terror of poison gas attacks, machine-guns and artillery shells…

War is like a photograph. It’s beautiful and fascinating until you realize it’s completely staged and not what your eyes made it out to be. Wilfred Owen’s poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, is a piece of art written during World War I. He shows us the truths about war using imagery to make our minds run free and find the pictures he is trying to show us. There are parts of the poem that show us a “brought to life” side of the poem and a side that unsuccessfully shows the audience the life of World War…