HST 702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sulfur Mustard, Minenwerfer, Phosgene
8 Dec 2013
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1915 was a very bad year for the entente. Things weren"t over by christmas and there was no end in sight. British army had lost 300,000 soldiers, germans lost more that 600,000, french lost 1. 3m. 1 - the second battle of ypres (april 1915) Only major german offensive launched on the western front in 1915. Germans had been seeing success on the eastern front but not in the. They tried to take troops out of the west and take them to the east to fight the russians. Launched the offensive to prove they"re still a strong nation despite taking troops out. Germans fail miserably: the terrible death of poison gas. French had previously tried to use tear gas, but it wasn"t major because it didn"t work. Germans attempt to use poison gas in january 1915. Wasn t as prestigious a debut as they had hoped for. 22nd april 1915, germans began attack with a heavy bombardment, but.
