... agents was during World war one on April 22, 1915. During the battle of Ypres, the Germans utilised nerve agents for the first time ever for war purposes. They unleashed a deadly new gas called "chlorine gas" (CL2) on the British and French in a trail run. It was estimated that this new blistering agent cost over 5000 lives. In retaliation to this ... mines bombs and planes. Upon dispersion the wind, temperature, velocity and other such factors determine the true damage this gas can do. Compared to cyanide it is 20 times more deadly, and only 0.5 ml is required to kill a fully grown adu...

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... Germany, where Himmler managed, with Hitler's approval, to fuse the SS and the police, thereby realizing one of the conditions for the extermination of the Jews. Each side in this deadly rivalry attempted to appeal to the leader against their rivals, thereby enhancing Mussolini's and Hitler's popularity – already immense because of their perceived success in re-establishing their respective countries ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... nothing to advance the Allied position. Hitler's army was allowed six months to reinforce and plan. The Allies continued to put themselves in a position of disadvantage. While the Europeans faced a deadly threat with Hitler, the South Pacific saw its own menace with Japan. Imperial Japan, which imported almost 100 percent of its oil and most of its natural resources, began a campaign ... ...

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... goals for Germany in the event of an untimely death. Hitler was not daydreaming, any of that would come when he casually mentioned global conquest. In this meeting he was deadly serious and argued for the vital necessity of continental expansion. According to Hitler "the aim of German policy was to make secure and preserve the racial community and to enlarge ... ...

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... war against defenseless women and children. Civilians, both white and black , were placed in concentration camps . About 26,000 Boer women and children and 14,000 Africans perished in these deadly camps. An English lady, Emily Hobhouse, alerted the world to the atrocities of the camps. " In some camps,"" she reported, "two and sometimes three different families live in one tent ... ...

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... the massive mobilization of the home front and the establishment of the first totalitarian society. The introduction of machine guns, poisonous gases, tanks, submarines, and airplanes made total war extremely deadly. Hopefully, the lessons learned from the past major wars will be applied by today's society, and efforts will be made to avoid at all costs another total war. World War ... ...

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... "tugging on the wire like twitching agonies of men". The weather acts as an enemy to the soldiers in the poem. Owen comments that the "bullets" from guns are "less deadly than the air"; the weather is a tougher enemy than any soldier is. The poem shows how terrible the conditions of the war are and how pointless the waste of life ... ...

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