1900s Chemical Warfare

Question 1

Brief timeline of the history of chemical warfare in the 1900s.
In 1915….

Answer 1

… the Germans use extensive Chlorine gas, and the effects were horrific

Question 2

Brief timeline of the history of chemical warfare in the 1900s.
In 1915-1918…

Answer 2

By 1918, the French and British were also using chemical warfare against the germans - as well as the germans using it back.

Question 3

Over the course of WWI, and by the end, ____________ people had been horrifically slaughtered by chemical warfare.

Answer 3

90,000 (with hundreds of thousands more injuries which would later result in death or crippling afflictions)

Question 4

Brief timeline of the history of chemical warfare in the 1900s.

In 1925….

Answer 4

… In 1925 Geneva Protocols pledge against ever using chemical warfare again

Question 5

Brief timeline of the history of chemical warfare in the 1900s.

In 1997….

Answer 5

… in 1997 there was a chemical warfare and weapon convention.

Question 6

Why did neither sides use gas during WWII?

Answer 6

On the main battlefields, gas was pledged against by both Hitler and the allies. This was because the leadership of both sides had fought in the horrors of chemical warfare in the first world war and experienced it first hand, including Hitler.