Poison Gas
Poison gas was probably one of the most feared weapons of WW1. Some people think that the Germans were the first to use poison gas, but it was actually the French who did first. Poison gas, was a gas that was used to “clean out” trenches of enemies. The Germans used it as a way of inflicting a major defeat on the enemy. The purpose of it is that it was a more irritant rather than a gas that would kill. It did improve lives for the people who were using it against others, just not the ones who were put in poison gas chambers and such. The people who were being attacked with poison gas, put on gas masks, but they did not work. And the poison gas was so severe, that when there was a poison gas attack, soldiers would be in agony for days, before finally giving in to their injuries. The negative impacts that came from poison gas is that this gas killed a lot of people when it was used and if it didn't kill them it badly injured them.