Chemical Warfare/ Poison Gas by Marycruz Rivera https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f By: Marycruz Rivera, Jacqueline Pompa, Celso Porron and Daniel Moreno en-us 2017-01-24 17:24:30 UTC 2025-10-29 17:01:34 UTC hello@padlet.com Why? 350560 https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f/wish/149100367 When Germany was going through Belgium to invade France in 1914,it instantly became a trench war.Germany was thinking of a way to break the deadlock and decided a possible solution was to use poisonous gas,yet they didn't want to be the first to use it,so there suspicions that France was the First to use 26 mm gas grenades and other weapons,the German High Command thought that it was now ok for Germany to use chemical weapons.

]]> 2017-01-24 17:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f/wish/149100367 What was the impact and/or effects of your weapon on WWI, a particular battle or on history in general? 350560 https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f/wish/149100477 Chemical weapons impacted the way people fought in wars,yet the use of chemical weapons has brought out much casualties,in fact about 1.2 million casualties due to chemical weapons.A specific battle would be the Battle of Ypres in which the Germans released  poisonous gas and afterwards,the British and French started developing chemical weapons and gas masks.


]]> 2017-01-24 17:38:43 UTC https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f/wish/149100477 When? 332645 https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f/wish/149102157 In the first month of the war, August 1914, they fired tear-gas grenades (xylyl bromide) against the Germans. The first full-scale deployment of deadly chemical warfare agents during World War I was at the Second Battle of Ypres, on April 22, 1915, when the Germans attacked French, Canadian and Algerian troops with chlorine gas.

]]> 2017-01-24 17:42:41 UTC https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f/wish/149102157 What? 338596 https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f/wish/149102228 During the war Germans used tear gas but because it was cold the chemicals often froze and failed the desired affects. Later on they used chlorine. This was possibly the worst because this caused a powerful irritation that inflicts damage to the eyes, nose, throat and lungs. ]]> 2017-01-24 17:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f/wish/149102228 Where? 332645 https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f/wish/149102266 On April 22, 1915, German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans, and it devastated the Allied line.]]> 2017-01-24 17:42:58 UTC https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f/wish/149102266 How? (How was it used? How deadly was it?) 338596 https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f/wish/149102361 The gases used were not used to kill the soldiers but rather used so the soldiers were not able to defend their position. Because of the irritation of the gas used during the war most of the troops in the trenches fled and abandoned their positions leaving the Germans at an advantage. ]]> 2017-01-24 17:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f/wish/149102361 Who 348493 https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f/wish/149102505 Fritz Haber was the weapons main advocate. He supported the first chemical weapon to used which was the chlorine gs attack.Six months into the war Haber convinced a commander to try out his chlorine attack which killed more then 1,100 soldiers]]> 2017-01-24 17:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/332645/vc7p457p6w7f/wish/149102505