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Chemical Warfare During World War I

Chemical Warfare During World War I. By: Sam Katz. Chlorine. Battle of Ypres 1915 - The first large scale use. Used by the Germans. Yellowish color. Eyes, Nose, and Throat. Chlorine Gas. Phosgene. German use in late 1915 Invisible Choke, Gasp for air & Suffocate

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Chemical Warfare During World War I

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  1. Chemical Warfare During World War I By: Sam Katz

  2. Chlorine • Battle of Ypres 1915 - The first large scale use. • Used by the Germans. • Yellowish color. • Eyes, Nose, and Throat. Chlorine Gas

  3. Phosgene • German use in late 1915 • Invisible • Choke, Gasp for air & Suffocate • 10x’s more deadly than Chlorine. The French set up. British Gas Mask

  4. Chloropicrin • German use. • Colorless. • Penetrated masks. • First Chloropicrin, • then Phosgene. The Germans and their gas tanks

  5. Mustard Gas • Dihloroethyl sulfide. • Smelled like Mustard or horseradish. • Oily brown liquid. • “King of the war • gases.” Effects of Mustard Gas

  6. Effects of Mustard Gas

  7. Defense to the Gases • Mask’s. • Newer & Better Gases • Techniques. French respirator Canister of Gas Horse and soldier gas mask

  8. Dugout from Gas Attacks

  9. Long run. • Poison gases became essential. • 113,000 tons of poison gas. • 92,000 Deaths • 1.3 million causalities. The French loading canisters of gas. Gas Shells on No Man’s land

  10. Sources • Pringle, Laurence P. Chemical and Biological Warfare : The Cruelest Weapons. New York: Enslow, Incorporated, 2000. 17-23. • America : The Twentieth Century. Evanston: McDougal Littell Incorporated, 2002. 406. • Duffy, Michael. "Weapons of War: Poison Gas." First World War: The War to End All Wars. 5 May 2002. 23 Oct. 2008 <http://firstworldwar.com/weaponry/gas.htm>. • "Mustard gas burns." 20 Oct. 2006. 23 Oct. 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/image:mustard_gas_burns.jpg>. • Charles, Heller E. "Chemical Warfare in World War I." Sept. 1984. 23 Oct. 2008 <http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/heller/heller.asp#2.%20ypres%20sector%20in%20belgium,%2022%20april-24%20may%201915>. • "Gas Related Photos." Photos of the Great War. 23 Oct. 2008 <http://www.gwpda.org/photos/gas1.htm>.

  11. The End!

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