Today, in class, we got on the computers and continued our blog discussions and what not. I talked about trench warfare for my discussion and I totally nailed it.
Mr. Bruns talked about the German plan, known as the 'Von Schlieffen.' They felt that they would be able to knock Russia out of the war pretty easily, They were going to go through the the neutral country of Belgium, which broke international law, and to sneak up France. They came about sixty miles from taking over Paris.
He showed us some interesting pictures of trenches and what the soldiers had in the trench. They carried a trench club, a bayonet, and even a percussion grenade. Threy also carried rocket-launcher like grenades and a scarecrow looking gas mask. Although machine guns are rather offensive nowadays, they were very large and immobile, so they were the ultimate defenseive weapon.
World War I was the last time that gas warfare was legal. Adolf Hitler even agreed to not use it, as he was injured by it in his war days. One negative to using gas is that if the wind changes the gas would kill your own army. Lachrymator is similar to the modern-day mace, but this gas was easily filtered by the gas max. Asphyxiant gases affect your lungs moreso and could kill you. This could not be effectively filtered by the gas max. The motherload of gases was the 'Blistering Agent,' which would affect any moist skin and cause severe burning in the lungs, etc.
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