The stalemate at the Western Front brought many revolutionary and inventive weapons to the war. Two of which were the tank and gas. These two weapons were thought prior to use, to have ended the stalemate at the western front for their respective countries. Both of these weapons were a flump and did very little apart from cause harm and pain to their enemy. Gas was the first type of chemical warfare used in war. …showed first 75 words of 900 total…

…showed last 75 words of 900 total…from gas from May 1915 were relatively rare. It was estimated that 3% of the British casualties of gas was fatal and the rest were on the road to recovery, so it was not a deadly weapon. If it wasn't for the protective masks and methods of protection used against poison gas, this weapon may have been a lot more deadly. By 1918 all soldiers on both sides had filter respirators masks, which lessened the threat of gas.