8 starting facts about world war one

Facts
  1. 9 million soldiers and 7 million citizens died as a result of WW1.
  1. Chemical weapons were first used in WW1.
Using poison gas was considered a war crime,
but tear gas wasn’t considered to be a conflict by the troops.
The Germans were the first to use lethal gases when they used a chlorine gas attack.
Later they also developed and used the most effective gas of the First World War —
mustard gas. The British were shocked at the German use of poison gas,
but developed their own gas warfare to retaliate.
  1. The Pool of Peace is a 40-ft (12-m) deep lake near Messines, Belgium.
It fills a crater made in 1917 when the British detonated a mine containing 4
5 tons of explosives.
  1. During WWI, dogs were used as messengers and carried orders to t
he front lines in capsules attached to their bodies.
Dogs were also used to lay down telegraph wires
  1. Spanish flu caused a third of the military deaths in WW1
  1. 12 million letters were delivered to the front each week.
  1. Blood banks were developed in WW1.
  1. WW1 started on July 28th 1914

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