Germans launch first-full scale use of deadly chemicals in warfare 100 years ago this hour (Apr 22 1915)

1910s, World War I


Video: 'Deadly Battles of World War I - Ypres the Gas Inferno'

(Thursday, April 22, 1915, at around 5:00 p.m. CET; part of the Western Front of World War I) — The first full-scale use of deadly chemicals in warfare took place today as German forces unleashed chlorine gas against Allied troops at the start of the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium during World War I; thousands of soldiers are believed to have died.


Video: '(WW1) The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century - Total War (Part 3 of 7)' (Apr. 22, 1915, at 33:35)