World War 1 Turning Points
World War 1 was a huge turning point in our world. “World War 1 was one of the deadliest conflicts in the history of the human race, in which over 16 million people died. The total number of both civilian and military casualties is estimated at around 37 million people. The war killed almost 7 million civilians and 10 million military personnel” (history on the net Staff)”. Before the war and at the beginning of the war, it was called “the great adventure”. “Many men left the shores of New Zealand and Australia in 1914 and 1915 believing they were embarking upon the great adventure. Experience was quick to disprove this, and so for me the title represents the enthusiastic optimism, and the tragic reality, that was The Great War (Sutton)”.
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In World War 1 the main “poison” was chlorine gas. “Chlorine gas, produces a greenish-yellow cloud that smells of bleach and immediately irritates the eyes, nose, lungs, and throat of those exposed to it. At high enough doses, it kills by asphyxiation (Everts)”. Militaries would fire shells full of the gas into trenches. “On the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Fritz Haber, the talented chemist, offered his services to the German Army. He began experimenting with chlorine gas to be used in Trench Warfare. Most soldiers now realised they were being gassed and many ran as fast as they could away from the scene (Simkin)”. This was a very easy way to get a lot of soldiers out of their trenches very quickly. During World War 1 the main tactic was trench warfare. Trench warfare was basically opposing troops shooting at each other through the trenches. The land in between the trenches was known as “no man’s land”. No man’s land was very dangerous it was nobody’s land. All of the fighting in the main battles were over no man’s land. There was a front trench between both sides. The soldiers would rotate through the front, middle and back trenches. Trench warfare was very slow and there was little action and the soldiers' would sit and wait in these gross trenches drinking and smoking. To reek havoc on a trench, and the troops inside of it, soldiers started to use a hand grenade. “The
In World War 1 the main “poison” was chlorine gas. “Chlorine gas, produces a greenish-yellow cloud that smells of bleach and immediately irritates the eyes, nose, lungs, and throat of those exposed to it. At high enough doses, it kills by asphyxiation (Everts)”. Militaries would fire shells full of the gas into trenches. “On the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Fritz Haber, the talented chemist, offered his services to the German Army. He began experimenting with chlorine gas to be used in Trench Warfare. Most soldiers now realised they were being gassed and many ran as fast as they could away from the scene (Simkin)”. This was a very easy way to get a lot of soldiers out of their trenches very quickly. During World War 1 the main tactic was trench warfare. Trench warfare was basically opposing troops shooting at each other through the trenches. The land in between the trenches was known as “no man’s land”. No man’s land was very dangerous it was nobody’s land. All of the fighting in the main battles were over no man’s land. There was a front trench between both sides. The soldiers would rotate through the front, middle and back trenches. Trench warfare was very slow and there was little action and the soldiers' would sit and wait in these gross trenches drinking and smoking. To reek havoc on a trench, and the troops inside of it, soldiers started to use a hand grenade. “The